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They are brought together in a single embrace by Berman’s spirited appreciation of Marxism as expressive

aiming to bring his depth of learning to a broader audience

and the New York of devastated wastelands and creative artists

The bitter firefighters’ dispute

Only by ‘reading like a loser’ and failing to live up to his ideals can we move beyond Nietzsche to a still more radical revaluation of all values—a subhumanism that expands the boundaries of society until we are left with less than nothing in common

Against World Literature keyword-john-bellamy-foster They are brought together inAgainst World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the Untranslatablethe realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution. In the place of World Literaturea dominant paradigm in the