New Directions in Philosophy and Literature. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, Frida Beckman.
• Editors: Rudrum, David; Askin, Ridvan; Beckman, Frida
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Editors' Preface; General Introduction: Opposition of the Faculties, Philosophy's Literary Impossibility, Claire Colebrook; Part 1: Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary; Editor's Introduction, David Rudrum; 1. The Polymodern Condition: A Report on Cluelessness, David Rudrum; 2. Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic – A Case Study into Contemporary Autofiction, Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons, and Timotheus Vermeulen; 3. The Ends of Metafiction, or, The Romantic Time of Egan's Goon Squad, Josh Toth; 4. Virtually Human: Posthumanism and (Post-)postmodern Cyberspace in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story, Nicky Gardiner; Part 2: Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism; Editor's Introduction, Ridvan Askin; 5. Hélène Cixous's So Close; or, Moving Matters on the Subject, Birgit Mara Kaiser; 6. Meillassoux, the Critique of Correlationism, and British Romanticism, Evan Gottlieb; 7. Fictional Objects Fictional Subjects, Graham Priest; 8.On the Death of Meaning, R. Scott Bakker; Part 3: Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms; Editor's Introduction, Ridvan Askin; 9. Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour's Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment, Babette B. Tischleder; 10. Three Problems of Formalism: An Object-Oriented View, Graham Harman; 11. A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation, and Wor(l)ding, Helen Palmer; 12. Emerson's Speculative Pragmatism, Ridvan Askin; Part 4: Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy; Editor's Introduction, David Rudrum; 13. Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty; 14. Reading Orwell – Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature, Ingeborg Löfgren; 15. Stanley Cavell and the Politics of Modernism, R.M. Berry; 16. Inferentialist Semantics, Intimationist Aesthetics, and Walden, Bryan Vescio; Part 5: Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene; Editor's Introduction, Frida Beckman; 17. Living to Tell the Story: Characterisation, Narrative Perspective, and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels, Astrid Bracke; 18. Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: Ian McEwan's Solar, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood, Robert P. Marzec; 19. The Day of the Dark Precursor: Philosophy, Fiction, and Fabulation at the End of the World – A Ficto-Critical Guide, Charlie Blake; Part 6: Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control; Editor's Introduction, Frida Beckman; 20. Literature's Biopolitics, Rey Chow; 21. We Have Been Paranoid Too Long to Stop Now, Frida Beckman and Charlie Blake; 22. Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US Fiction, David Watson; 23. Automatic Art, Automated Trading: Finance, Fiction, and Philosophy, Arne De Boever; Notes on Contributors; Index. Acknowledgements Editors' Preface General Introduction: Opposition of the Faculties, Philosophy's Literary ImpossibilityClaire Colebrook Part I: Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary Editor's Introduction David Rudrum 1. The Polymodern Condition: A Report on Cluelessness David Rudrum 2. Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic – A Case Study into Contemporary Autofiction Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons and Timotheus Vermeulen 3. The Ends of Metafiction, or, The Romantic Time of Egan's Goon Squad Josh Toth 4. Virtually Human: Posthumanism and (Post-)postmodern Cyberspace in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story Nicky Gardiner Part II: Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism Editor's Introduction Ridvan Askin 5. Hélène Cixous's So Close; or, Moving Matters on the Subject Birgit Mara Kaiser 6. Meillassoux, the Critique of Correlationism, and British Romanticism Evan Gottlieb 7. Fictional Objects Fictional Subjects Graham Priest 8. On the Death of Meaning R. Scott Bakker Part III: Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms Editor's Introduction Ridvan Askin 9. Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour's Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment Babette B. Tischleder 10. Three Problems of Formalism: An Object-Oriented View Graham Harman 11. A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation, and Wor(l)ding Helen Palmer 12. Emerson's Speculative Pragmatism Ridvan Askin Part IV: Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy Editor's Introduction David Rudrum 13. Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty Reading Orwell – Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature Ingeborg Löfgren 14. Stanley Cavell and the Politics of Modernism R.M. Berry 15. Inferentialist Semantics, Intimationist Aesthetics, and Walden Bryan Vescio Part V: Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene Editor's Introduction Frida Beckman 16. Living to Tell the Story: Characterisation, Narrative Perspective, and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels Astrid Bracke 17. Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: Ian McEwan's Solar, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Year of the FloodRobert P. Marzec 18. The Day of the Dark Precursor: Philosophy, Fiction, and Fabulation at the End of the World – A Ficto-Critical Guide Charlie Blake 19. So to Speak Adrian Parr Part VI: Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control Editor's Introduction Frida Beckman 20. Literature's Biopolitics Rey Chow 21. We Have Been Paranoid Too Long to Stop Now Frida Beckman and Charlie Blake 22. Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US FictionDavid Watson 23. Automatic Art, Automated Trading: Finance, Fiction, and PhilosophyArne De Boever Notes on ContributorsIndex.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (496 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474449175
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