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Nemoianu, Virgil. Imperfection and Defeat: the Role of Aesthetic Imagination in Human Society.(Book review)

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From: The Review of Metaphysics
Date: 20080301
Author:Dougherty, Jude P.

NEMOIANU, Virgil. Imperfection and Defeat: the Role of Aesthetic Imagination in Human Society. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2006. 150 pp.--This volume may be best described as a philosophy of history. An introductory first chapter is followed by chapters entitled, "The Dialectic of Literature and Religion," "The Dialectic of Literature and History," "Literature as Allegory of Human Persecution and Survival," and "East/Central Europe as a Confirmatory Case Study." Virgil Nemoianu, the William J. Byron Distinguished Professor of Literature at The ...

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