Rootedness : The Ramifications of a Metaphor / Christy Wampole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wampole, Christy, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roots (Botany) in literature.

Metaphor in literature.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

German literature--20th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

Alienation (Philosophy).

Affiliation (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth-and nations-from which they came. In Rootedness, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root-surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology to the language of exile-developed in twentieth-century Europe. Wampole examines both the philosophical implications of this metaphor and its political evolution. From the root as home to the root as genealogical origin to the root as the past itself, rootedness has survived in part through its ability to subsume other compelling metaphors, such as the foundation, the source, and the seed. With a focus on this concept's history in France and Germany, Wampole traces its influence in diverse areas such as the search for the mystical origins of words, land worship, and nationalist rhetoric, including the disturbing portrayal of the Jews as an unrooted, and thus unrighteous, people. Exploring the works of Martin Heidegger, Simone Weil, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paul Celan, and many more, Rootedness is a groundbreaking study of a figure of speech that has had wide-reaching-and at times dire-political and social consequences.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Welcome to the Rhizosphere

Chapter 2. Radical Poetry

Chapter 3. Roots and Transcendence

Chapter 4. Saving Europe from Itself: Weil's Enracinement and Heidegger's Bodenständigkeit

Chapter 5. Sartre, Phenomenology, and the Root

Chapter 6. Etymology and Essence: The Primeval Power of Word Roots

Chapter 7. From Rhizome to Vegetal Democracy

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226317793

022631779X

OCLC:

946359603