Vital Stein
Gertrude Stein, Modernism and Life
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:12th May '22
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This book focuses on Gertrude Stein, who wanted to capture ‘this thing life’ in writing, and argues that Stein is linked to a number of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century thinkers, who, like Stein, also conceived of life as an open, differential system. These chapters weave together Wilhelm Dilthey, Henri Bergson, Walter Benjamin and A.N. Whitehead, offering readers an alternative vitalist framework.
This book is exciting on the conceptual level and awesome in its capacity to articulate what Stein is doing and why. This I think is the first book anyone should read if the person wants to appreciate Stein more fully. When God seemed to have died, a different concept of life was born for many writers. Critics and philosphers have formulated this change largely in terms of vitalist models stressing efforts at attuning to natural processes and modes of relation. Sarah Posman’s brilliant Vital Stein offers superb summaries of that work; then shows how Stein complicates that vitalism by stressing how constructive powers of mind can have their own deep engagement in the forces that constitute life. -- Charles F. Altieri, University of California, Berkeley
ISBN: 9781474425353
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248 pages