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Survival of the Fireflies
Engelsk Paperback
Survival of the Fireflies
Engelsk Paperback

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Seeking out the minor lights of friendship in a time of fascism


Dante once spoke, in his Divine Comedy, of the miniscule lights, in the twenty-sixth canto of the Inferno, who, contrary to the great lights that shined bright within the sublime circles of Paradise, frailly wandered in the somber pockets of glimmering light within the darkness. Pliny the Elder was once preoccupied by a type of fly named pyrallis or pyrotocon, which was only able to fly within fire: “as long as it remains in the fire, it can fly; when its flight takes it out too far a distance, it dies.” 

Through his readings of Dante, Pasolini, Walter Benjamin, and others, Georges Didi-Huberman seeks again to understand this strange, minor light, the signals of small beings in search of love and friendship. Their flickering presence serves as a counterforce to the blinding sovereign power that Giorgio Agamben calls The Kingdom and the Glory, that artificial brilliance that once surrounded dictators and today emanates from every screen. In this timely reflection, much needed in our time of excessive light, Didi-Huberman’s Survival of the Fireflies offers a humble yet powerful image of individual hope and desire: the firefly-image.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
112
ISBN-13:
9781517905743
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1517905745
Udg. Dato:
4 sep 2018
Længde:
9mm
Bredde:
140mm
Højde:
202mm
Forlag:
University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato:
4 sep 2018
Forfatter(e):
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