Restitution and the politics of repair : tropes, imaginaries, theory / Magdalena Zolkos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Żółkoś, Magdalena, author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Restitution.

Political ethics.

Restitution in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Takes a unique approach grounded in political and cultural discourse to develop a political theory of restitution.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Imagining Restitution

1. In dominum pristinum statuere: Hugo Grotius’ Theory of Restitution and the Return of the Former Condition of Things

2. The Creature as a Figure of Unrestitutability, or Monsters in Paradise not Allowed: Benevolence and Restitution in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

3. Émile Durkheim’s Restitutive Humanitarianism: from Organic Solidarity to the ‘Solidarity of Things’

4. ‘I only loved’: Restitution in Psychoanalysis

Epilogue: Restitution that Doubles the Loss

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 10, 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-9110-3

1-4744-5311-2

OCLC:

1312726998