Name: Turning Away. The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
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Author: Benjamin A. Saltzman
ISBN: 9780226847221

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Turning Away. The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Chicago Press

Autor

Benjamin A. Saltzman

Colección

Thinking Literature

Año

2026

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9780226847221

Turning Away. The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture

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A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. Why do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame? Why do we lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art, poetry, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world, challenging us to reflect on the ways we fundamentally relate to others. Into the horizon of contemporary discourse, Turning Away sets out from five influential episodes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthes’s Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Plato’s Republic, Augustine’s Confessions, Christ’s Crucifixion, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these episodes refract across visual media, through philosophy and politics, into modernity and the present day, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí, poets like Langston Hughes, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so.