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Online-Ressource
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Online-Ausg.
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0231537913
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9780231537919
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Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought shaping American political discourse after World War II. Yet none of them was American, and this was crucial to their thinking, which relied on ways of arguing and reasoning that stand both inside and outside of the American context. In an effort to convince their audiences they were American enough, these thinkers deployed deft rhetorical strategies that made their cosmopolitanism feel acceptable, inspiring radical new approaches to longstanding problems in
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〈div〉〈P〉Andreea D. Ritivoi is professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on immigration, exile, political discourse, argumentation theory, and intellectual history. She is the author of 〈i〉Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Imm〈/div〉
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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The stranger personaHannah Arendt : the thinker and the American republic -- Herbert Marcuse's German revolution in America -- Cold war prophesies : Alexander Solzhenitsyn and mythological America -- Edward Said and the clash of identities -- Conclusion : friendship with strangers.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231168683
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231168687
Additional Edition:
Print version Intimate strangers
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English
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