New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781474449144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 496 str.

David Rudrum; Ridvan Askin; Frida Beckman

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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.