The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns

Professor Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country
United States
Published
21 April 2016
Pages
232
ISBN
9781501307997

The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns

Professor Jean-Michel Rabate (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Jean-Michel Rabate uses Nietzsche’s image of a pathos of distance, the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche’s and Benjamin’s ideas of history and ethics, Rabate provides an original genealogy for modernist thought, moving through figures and moments as varied as Yeats and the birth of Irish Modernism, the ethics of courage in Virginia Woolf, Rilke, Apollinaire, and others in 1910, T. S. Eliot’s post-war despair, Jean Cocteau’s formidable selfmythology in his first film The Blood of a Poet, Siri Hustvedt’s novel of American trauma, and J. M. Coetzee’s dystopia portraying an affectless future haunted by a messianic promise.

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