This book traces the originality of Andrey Platonov's vision of the
Revolution in readings of his works. It has been common in Platonov
scholarship to measure him within the parameters of a political pro et
contra the October Revolution and Soviet society, but the proposal of
this book is to look for the way in which the writer continuously
asked into the disastrous aspects of the implementation of a new
proletarian community for what they could tell us about the promise of
the Revolution to open up the experience of the world as common. In
readings of selected works by Andrei Platonov I follow the development
of his chronicle of revolutionary society, and from within it the
outline of the forgotten utopian dream of a common world. I bring
Platonov into a dialogue with certain questions that arise from the
philosophy of Martin Heidegger and that were later re-addressed in the
works of Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy,
related to the experience of the modern world in terms of communality,
groundlessness, memory, interiority. I show that Platonov writes the
Revolution as an implementation of common being in society that needs
to retrieve the forgotten memory of what being in common means.
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The Forgotten Dream of the Revolution
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781498547765
Publisert
2018
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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