By William V. Spanos

This ebook is an autobiographical meditation at the means during which the world’s inhabitants has been reworked right into a society of refugees and émigrés looking –indeed, hard– an alternate manner of political belonging. targeting the interregnum we now have precariously occupied because the finish of global struggle II—and in particular after Sep 11— it constitutes a sequence of genealogical chapters that hint the author’s trip from his adventure as a prisoner of battle in Nazi Germany to the awful fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. In doing so, it explores his look for an highbrow vocation sufficient to the dislocating epiphany he skilled in bearing witness to those traumatising occasions. Having hence misplaced religion within the common sense of belonging perpetuated by means of the geographical region, Spanos charts how he started to glance within the rubble of that 0 sector for an alternate means of belonging: one within which the outdated binary —whose primary was once in accordance with the violence of the Friend/enemy competition— used to be changed by means of a paradoxical loving strife that enriched instead of negated the possibility of either side. The chapters during this publication hint this errant vocational itinerary, from the author’s early undergraduate engagement with Kierkegaard and Heidegger to Cornel West, relocating from that disclosive celebration within the 0 sector to this current moment.

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