New Directions in Philosophy and Literature / / Ridvan Askin, Frida Beckman, David Rudrum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Rudrum, David,; Askin, Ridvan,; Beckman, Frida,
• MitwirkendeR: Akker, Robin van den,; Askin, Ridvan,; Bakker, R. Scott,; Beckman, Frida,; Berry, R. M.,; Blake, Charlie,; Boever, Arne De,; Bracke, Astrid,; Chow, Rey,; Colebrook, Claire,; Gardiner, Nicky,; Gibbons, Alison,; Gottlieb, Evan,; Harman, Graham,; Kaiser, Birgit Mara,; Löfgren, Ingeborg,; Marzec, Robert P.,; Palmer, Helen,; Parr, Adrian,; Priest, Graham,; Rudrum, David,; Tischleder, Babette B.,; Toth, Josh,; Vermeulen, Timotheus,; Vescio, Bryan,; Watson, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)

Maps out how new developments in 21st-century philosophy intersect with the study of literatureIncludes an orientational introduction by Claire Colebrook, one of the world's foremost authorities in the fieldEngages dynamic debates about what it means to be human in face of recent developmen...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 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 Formalism: 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 Walde
• 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 Literary 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