Kirjahaku

Saul Bellow emphasized to a remarkable degree that the protagonists in his later novels were intellectuals trained in the humanistic traditions of European liberal education. He supposed that these protagonists would lead modern American society and predict its future. However, they were ostracized from the intellectual center of modern America, marginalized and rejected by the ethics of capitalism, and therefore denied any significant moral or ethical role. Bellow addressed this gap and acknowledged that deconstructing the negativity of capitalism helped solve this intellectual and moral decay in America. Madness and Subversion in Saul Bellow’s Later Novels examines how and why intellectuals were regarded in European humanistic tradition as wise heroes who sought to deconstruct the norms of their society, which was dominated by low culture. It goes on to explain the unravelling of the Bellovian paradigm, unrealizable in a society where democracy and capitalism were the dominant ideologies. Author Ramzi Marrouchi uses a combination of Derrida’s premises on deconstructionism, Foucault’s conception of "épistémè", and de Man’s view on blindness and insight to explain the social and historical fracture from which Bellow’s intellectuals suffered. This book is the first to investigate Bellow’s later novels from a deconstructionist perspective. It will be appeal to all scholars and students interested in Bellow’s creations, and in the intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century America. The book, like its author, is innovative, clear, and able to open pathways to new ideas. —Dr. Wael Mustafa, Fayoum University, Cairo, Egypt, Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Criticism Hilariously entertaining and thoroughly written. —Dr. Shaimaa El-Ateek, Imam University, Riyadh, KSA Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Criticism

This book argues that Herzog's and Henderson's madness is nothing but the wisdom of unrecognized intellectuals. These protagonists are ostracized from the center of modern American society. They are marginalized, forgotten and faded away from the public's attention. Yet, being possessors of European high culture and deeply immersed in European liberal education, namely, in humanities, they survive to subvert and deconstruct the amoral ethics of post-industrial American society.

Ta książka dowodzi, że szaleństwo Herzoga i Hendersona jest niczym innym jak mądrością nieuznanych intelektualist w. Ci bohaterowie są ostraszeni z centrum wsp lczesnego spoleczeństwa amerykańskiego. Są zepchnięci na margines, zapomniani i zanikają uwadze publiczności. A jednak, będąc posiadaczami europejskiej wysokiej kultury i glęboko zanurzeni w europejskiej liberalnej edukacji, czyli w naukach humanistycznych, przeżywają, by obalic i zdekonstruowac amoralną etykę postindustrialnego spoleczeństwa amerykańskiego.