Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 113 the Isaacs’ household are outwardly unreserved, their excessiveness highlight a discrepa ...

114 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel the existing norms” through which we approach the category of the human being ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 115 character’s mordant humor and ironic outlook—qualities that, as I explicate above, expre ...

116 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel argument and detract from its aesthetic appeal. The utterances “I hope” in the ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 117 of one tendency in human thought. Reason is the being of a cer- tain spectrum of human t ...

118 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel believe in them” (p. 200). These intellectual inconsistencies consti- tute a d ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 119 of such a personal and intimate nature—what he labels “positively indecent” (p. 5). This ...

120 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel sense of affection for his emotionally distressed mother. We also come to feel ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 121 To demonstrate the similarity, it is necessary to quote the author at length: It was in ...

122 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel a number of instances in which disciplinary violence inflicted upon human bein ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 123 of its creatures. A land that drinks rivers of blood and is never sated” (pp. 57–58). Al ...

124 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel would have “pinned down” the horses in much the same way that Michael is being ...

Cosmopolitanism and Material Ethics 125 position the transformation within a broader material ethical sys- tem.^72 Indeed, what ...

3. C o s m o p o l i t a n i s m a n d T r a g i c Silence in Philip Roth’s American Trilogy T he c e lebr ate d Je w i sh A mer ...

128 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel does not detract from the story’s cosmopolitan valency. This is because Eli ex ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 129 lacunae, which include conceptual “gaps” in the consciousnesses of the characters themsel ...

130 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel short story, “Defender of the Faith,” in which Roth undermines the notion of a ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 131 Athenian tragedies, Silk never fully seems to learn from or express penance for his “mist ...

132 Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel the Stoics’ and Sophists’ models of cosmopolitanism were inherently flawed bec ...

Cosmopolitanism and Tragic Silence 133 time, we could note the contemporaneous popularity of the eugen- ics movement. As Edwin B ...