New directions in philosophy and literature /

This forward-thinking volume draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy alongside close readings of a range of texts from the literary canon.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rudrum, David, 1974- (Editor ), Askin, Ridvan (Editor ), Beckman, Frida (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Temas:
2000-2099
Literature > Philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern > 21st century.
Philosophie > 21e siècle.
Philosophy, Modern.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors ' Preface
  • General Introduction: Opposition of the Faculties, Philosophy's Literary Impossibility
  • PART I. Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 1. The Polymodern Condition: A Report on Cluelessness
  • 2. Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic
  • A Case Study of Contemporary Autofiction
  • 3. The Ends of Metafiction, or, The Romantic Time of Egan's Goon Squad
  • 4. Virtually Human: Posthumanism and (Post- )Postmodern Cyberspace in Gary Shteyngart 's Super Sad True Love Story
  • PART II. Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 5. Hélène Cixous's So Close
  • or, Moving Matters on the Subject
  • 6 Meillassoux, the Critique of Correlationism, and British Romanticism
  • 7. Fictional Objects Fictional Subjects
  • 8. On the Death of Meaning
  • PART III Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 9. Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour's Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment
  • 10. Three Problems of For malism: An Object-Oriented View
  • 11. A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation, and Wor(l)ding
  • 12. Emerson's Speculative Pragmatism
  • PART IV. Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 13. Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty Reading Orwell
  • Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature
  • 14. Stanley Cavell and the Politics of Modernism
  • 15. Inferentialist Semantics, Intimationist Aesthetics, and Walden
  • PART V. Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 16. Living to Tell the Story: Characterisation, Narrative Perspective, and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels
  • 17. Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: Ian McEwan's Solar, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood
  • 18. The Day of the Dark Precursor : Philosophy, Fiction, and Fabulation at the End of the World
  • A Fictocritical Guide
  • 19. So to Speak
  • PART VI. Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control
  • Editor's Introduction
  • 20. Literar y Study's Biopolitics
  • 21. We Have Been Paranoid Too Long to Stop Now
  • 22. Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US Fiction
  • 23. Automatic Art, Automated Trading: Finance, Fiction, and Philosophy
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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