TY - BOOK ID - 136270150 TI - Sharing common ground PY - 2017 SN - 1501329626 1501329634 1501329618 9781501329616 9781501329630 150132960X 9781501329609 9781501329593 1501329596 9781501329623 9781501329609 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Art and morals. KW - Collective memory and literature. KW - Literature and morals. KW - Literature KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136270150 AB - "Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools borrowed from literature, aesthetics, and philosophy to mobilize the thought of several seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault, Marguerite Duras, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben, among a host of others. Construction sites, concentration camps, cemeteries, slums--such are only a few of the spaces that impel our imagination naturally toward what we commonly call "cultural memory." Sharing Common Ground reveals how the endeavor to think and imagine in common, and especially about the spaces we inhabit together, is critically important to human beings, artistically, culturally, and ethically."--Bloomsbury Publishing. "A deep contribution to literary theory that champions the virtues of thinking in common--that is, cultural imagination--and the ethical power of art"--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -