{"product_id":"common-measures-romanticism-and-the-groundlessness-of-community-hardback-9781503639720","title":"Common Measures; Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community (Hardback) 9781503639720","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCommon Measures\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRomanticism and the Groundlessness of Community\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoseph Albernaz (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503639720\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 20 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e370 pages, 8 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.597 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is a true accomplishment. Albernaz offers an important set of interventions, beautiful readings, and new insights into the enduring, urgent, absent, impossible, necessary commons.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Sara Guyer, University of California, Berkeley \"\u003ci\u003eCommon Measures\u003c\/i\u003e is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the political dimension of Romanticism but also to our conception of the relationship between that period and the aesthetic, political and ecological concerns of today.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Kir Kuiken, University at Albany, SUNY\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate a vital conception of \"groundless community,\" while following this idea through its aesthetic, ecological, political, and philosophical registers into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmidst the violent expropriation of the commons, Romantic writers including the Wordsworths, Clare, Hölderlin, and the revolutionary abolitionist Robert Wedderburn reimagined the forms of their own lives through literature to conceive community as \u003ci\u003egroundless\u003c\/i\u003e, a disposition toward radically open forms of sharing—including with nonhuman beings—without recourse to any collective identity. Both a poetics and ethics, groundless community names an everyday sociality that surges beneath and against the enclosures of property and identity, binding us to the movements of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnearthing Romanticism's intersections with the history of communism and the general strike, Albernaz also demonstrates how Romantic literature's communal imagination reverberates through later theories of community in Bataille, Derrida, Nancy, Moten, and others. With sharp close readings, new historical constellations, and innovative theoretical paradigms, \u003ci\u003eCommon Measures\u003c\/i\u003e recasts the relationship of the Romantic period to the basic terms of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction. All Things Common\u003cbr\u003e  One. Singularity à deux: Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e  Two. Homeward Unbound: The Wordsworths\u003cbr\u003e  Three. Nonsovereign Circulations: William Blake\u003cbr\u003e  Interlude. Sunray of the Negative: Blake and Bataille\u003cbr\u003e  Four. Of Weeds and Worlds: John Clare\u003cbr\u003e  Five. To Strike the Root: Robert Wedderburn\u003cbr\u003e  Coda. Communism of Spirits\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676645224728,"sku":"9781503639720","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/common-measures-romanticism-and-the-groundlessness-of-community-hardback-9781503639720","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}