Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor; In Conversation

Date
Apr 26, 2016, 6:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
Labyrinth Books

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People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth—and nations—from which they came. In her new book, Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root—surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology to the language of exile—developed in twentieth-century Europe. We hope you can join us for a discussion between the author & her colleague at Princeton, the acclaimed critic and theorist Eduardo Cadava.  More...