Sharing Common Ground

<i>Sharing Common Ground</i> makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical photographic and literary examples including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras presented here in full to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools borrowed from literature aesthetics and philosophy to mobilize the thought of several seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault Marguerite Duras Georges Didi-Huberman and Giorgio Agamben among a host of others.<br/><br/>Construction sites concentration camps cemeteries slums-such are only a few of the spaces that impel our imagination naturally toward what we commonly call cultural memory. <i>Sharing Common Ground</i> reveals how the endeavor to think and imagine <i>in common</i> and especially about the spaces we inhabit together is critically important to human beings artistically culturally and ethically.