Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW-HSG) of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Framework. Beginnings and transitions in political science and literature -- Classical initiation stories. Political awakenings in The plot against America and Indignation -- Guided by the particularizer: I married a Communist -- Political odysseys: Prague, Israel, and elsewhere -- Initiation as radical self-invention. Passing and other escapes from the hereditary predicament -- The religious void, or terrorist art: fanaticism as a quest for identity -- De-initiation. For another go: (Zucker)man as a perpetual initiand -- Epilogue.
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