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Intimate strangers : Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American political discourse by Arendt, Hannah; Marcuse, Herbert; Marcuse, Herbert; Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu; Said, Edward William; Said, Edward W.; Said, Edward W.; Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevič; Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevič; Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these thinkers deployed deft rhetorical strategies that made their cosmopolitanism feel acceptable, inspiring radical new approaches to longstanding problems in American politics. Speaking like natives, they also exploited their foreignness to entice listeners to embrace alternative modes of thought. Intimate Strangers unpacks this "stranger ethos," a blend of detachment and involvement that manifested in the persona of a prophet for Solzhenitsyn, an impartial observer for Arendt, a mentor for Marcuse, and a victim for Said. Yet despite its many successes, the stranger ethos did alienate many audiences, and critics continue to dismiss these thinkers not for their positions but because of their foreign point of view. This book encourages readers to reject this kind of critical xenophobia, throwing su

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Author

Arendt, Hannah; Marcuse, Herbert; Marcuse, Herbert; Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu; Said, Edward William; Said, Edward W.; Said, Edward W.; Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevič; Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevič; Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231168687

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Philosophy