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9781474449144: New Directions in Philosophy and Literature
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ISBN 10: 147444914X ISBN 13: 9781474449144
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Maps out how new developments in 21st-century philosophy intersect with the study of literature

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Rudrum is a Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2013). He is co-editor of Supplanting the Postmodern (Bloomsbury, 2015), Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates (Palgrave, 2006).

Ridvan Askin is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in American and General Literatures at the University of Basel. His recent publications include two co-edited volumes, Aesthetics in the 21st Century, a special issue of Speculations (2014), and Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (Narr, 2015).

Frida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She has also published extensively on Deleuze, where her books include Gilles Deleuze: A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2017), Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).



David Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2013). He is co-editor of Supplanting the Postmodern (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Literature and Philosophy: A Guide to Contemporary Debates (Palgrave, 2006).

Ridvan Askin is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in American and General Literatures at the University of Basel. His publications include two co-edited volumes, Aesthetics in the 21st Century, a special issue of Speculations (2014), and Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (Narr, 2015).

Frida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her books include Control Culture: Foucault and Deleuze after Discipline (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Culture Control Critique: Allegories of Reading the Present (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). She has also published extensively on Deleuze, where her books include Gilles Deleuze: A Critical Life (Reaktion Books, 2017), Between Desire and Pleasure: A Deleuzian Theory of Sexuality (Edinburgh University Press, 2013) and the edited collection Deleuze and Sex (Edinburgh University Press, 2011).

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The interface between literature and philosophy has seldom been more varied, more dynamic, more exciting and more important for our culture. This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference work is the first book to map out the ways in which new developments in twenty-first century philosophy are entering into dialogue with the study of literature.Not confined to the familiar methods of analytic philosophy and with a breadth of attention beyond traditional literary theory, this collection looks at the profound consequences of the interaction between philosophy and literature for questions of ethics, politics, subjectivity, materiality, reality and the nature of the contemporary itself.Key features:•Includes an orientational introduction by Claire Colebrook•Engages dynamic debates about what it means to be human in face of recent developments in science and technology, the repercussions of anthropogenic climate change, and the overall nature of our contemporary moment•Draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy•Offers close readings of a range of texts from nineteenth- and twentieth-century classics such as Walden, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Nineteen Eighty-Four to contemporary novels such as A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Stone GodsDavid Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of HuddersfieldRidvan Askin is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in North American and General Literature at the University of BaselFrida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University.

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The interface between literature and philosophy has seldom been more varied, more dynamic, more exciting and more important for our culture. This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference work is the first book to map out the ways in which new developments in twenty-first century philosophy are entering into dialogue with the study of literature. Not confined to the familiar methods of analytic philosophy and with a breadth of attention beyond traditional literary theory, this collection looks at the profound consequences of the interaction between philosophy and literature for questions of ethics, politics, subjectivity, materiality, reality and the nature of the contemporary itself. Key features: -Includes an orientational introduction by Claire Colebrook -Engages dynamic debates about what it means to be human in face of recent developments in science and technology, the repercussions of anthropogenic climate change, and the overall nature of our contemporary moment -Draws on new developments in philosophy including speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, the new materialisms, posthumanism, analytic philosophy of language and metaphysics, and ecophilosophy -Offers close readings of a range of texts from nineteenth- and twentieth-century classics such as Walden, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Nineteen Eighty-Four to contemporary novels such as A Visit from the Goon Squad and The Stone Gods David Rudrum is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Huddersfield Ridvan Askin is Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow in North American and General Literature at the University of Basel Frida Beckman is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
147444914X
ISBN 13 
9781474449144
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
376
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