{"product_id":"how-to-love-a-homeland","title":"How to love a homeland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Russians could say: If you tie yourself to the tree, they will simply cut your down together with the tree. At this struggle, all means are good enough: if you cannot love your homeland as a human being, if the enemy pushes you out, love it like a plant – stay, resist; or love it like a beast – run, attack, or escape, but don’t leave them your homeland; just pack it in your heart and take it with you wherever you go.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e- \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOxana Timofeeva\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRussian writer and philosopher Oxana Timofeeva was born and grew up in various parts of the USSR. The book explores the difficulty of reducing one’s sense of homeland to one’s country alone, the philosophical interconnectedness of movement and rootedness, our plant and animal souls, and how we need to reimagine our desired, fictional if need be, homelands. The book interweaves vignettes from Timofeeva’s childhood across different parts of the USSR with a philosophical discussion of ideas on homeland in the thought of Brecht, Deleuze and Guattari, and other main figures of literature and philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOxana Timofeeva is Sc.D., professor at “Stasis” Center for Philosophy at the European University at St. Petersburg, leading researcher at Tyumen State University, member of the artistic collective “Chto Delat” (“What is to be done”), deputy editor of the journal “Stasis”, and the author of books \u003cem\u003eHistory of Animals\u003c\/em\u003e (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018; Maastricht: Jan van Eyck, 2012), \u003cem\u003eIntroduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille\u003c\/em\u003e (Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2009), \u003cem\u003eSolar Politics\u003c\/em\u003e (forthcoming, Polity, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommissioned and published by Kayfa ta (2020)\u003cbr\u003eTranslation from Russian by Maria Afanasyeva \u003cbr\u003eDesign template by Julie Peeters\u003cbr\u003eCover illustration by Jumana Emil Abboud\u003cbr\u003ePrinted at 53dots, Beirut\u003cbr\u003eISBN 978-1-955702-02-7\u003cbr\u003e9.6 x 14.8 cm, 96 pages, softcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxana Timofeeva","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67594882908462,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2263\/4647\/files\/how_to_love_a_homeland_1.jpg?v=1790769326","url":"https:\/\/3ssstudios.com\/products\/how-to-love-a-homeland","provider":"Bungee Space by 3standardstoppage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}