Preface 1. Construction Sites 2. Empathy and the Kantian Sublime 3. Of Spaces Otherwise 4. Zones of Indistinction 5. Foucault’s Transgression 6. The Cleave Informs: René Char and the Hope of Heresy Bibliography Index

In a number of ways and contexts, thus, Sharing Common Ground manages to reveal how the urge to think and imagine in common when faced with existing places and their challenges is essential culturally, artistically, theoretically, ethically and existentially for human beings if they are to recreate these places as spaces that they can inhabit together. Equally, Harvey lays bare that the sharing of common ground is a joint endeavor linking crucial figures within literature, art, theory, philosophy and ethics together … Harvey’s ongoing discussion throughout the book also repeatedly makes decisive and well-considered contributions to the translation and understanding of French theory and literature. In particular, it makes substantial offerings to the rendition of a number of crucial and at times somewhat quite enigmatic French terms and concepts in the English language … Sharing Common Ground shows considerable erudition; and Harvey’s scholarship is meticulous and detailed … By contextualizing the text and authors discussed, digging out a number of whole arrays of hitherto overlooked connections and establishing a number of family resemblances, he manages to cover a lot of (common) ground and to make a number of very important points. Throughout, reading Sharing Common Ground is a most rewarding, enlivening and enlightening experience. In this manner, the monograph also succeeds in making it graphic that (even) reading and writing can be (particularly) exhilarating experiences, despite the fact and due to the fact that we are here (in a pre-eminent sense) strangers when we meet.