The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul
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The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul

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The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul

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A highly engaging exploration of existential questions, written in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Book of Commentary / Unquiet Garden of the Soul confronts the reader with questions of existential meaning, questions rendered all the more potent by the backdrop of the Coronavirus pandemic: How fragile are we as human beings? How fragile are our societies? What is a "self, " an "I, " a "community"? How are we to orient ourselves? And what, if any, role does commentary play? In a fashion that will be familiar to longtime admirers of Alexander Kluge, the book stretches both back in time to the medieval glossators of Bologna and forward into interstellar space with imagined travel to the moon Europa. Kluge's characteristic brief, vignette-like prose passages are interspersed with images from his own film work and QR codes, forming a highly engaging, thoroughly contemporary read.

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Publisher
Seagull Books
Year
2023
ISBN
9781803092614
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Kluge’s Copyright page
  2. THREE STORIES AS A PREFACE
  3. STATION 1 THE CHALLENGE WHICH BEGAN THAT GLOOMY ADVENT OF 2020
  4. STATION 2 WHENEVER I THINK OF MY HOMETOWN, IT HAPPENS THROUGH THE EAR
  5. STATION 3 HOW DOES ONE TELL A STORY FROM UP CLOSE?
  6. STATION 4 A STRANGE CREATURE’S KNOCKING AT OUR DOOR
  7. STATION 5 ‘DEPENDABILITY IN THE UPPER ECHELONS OF THE WORLD’S LEADERS’
  8. STATION 6 WHERE CAN WE ESCAPE TO WHEN THE EARTH IS DESTROYED?
  9. STATION 7 ‘ON THE FRAGILITY OF THE HUMAN BEING’
  10. STATION 8 COMMENTARY ON A DRAWING BY SIGMUND FREUD
  11. STATION 9 HABERMAS /COMMENTARY
  12. STATION 10 A LONG LINE OF CLEVER GREEKS
  13. STATION 11 IN THE LAMP OF THE SOUL’S FLICKERING LIGHT: INTELLIGENCE
  14. STATION 12 THE MURMURING OF THE PILOT FISH
  15. NOTES and SOURCES
  16. Acknowledgements