New Directions in Philosophy and Literature

David Rudrum

ISBN 10: 147444914X / ISBN 13: 9781474449144

Published by Edinburgh University Press Sep 2019, 2019

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Neuware - 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New Directions in Philosophy and Literature
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Sep 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147444914X
• ISBN 13: 9781474449144
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 173H x 30D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 173 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 975 grams

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Synopsis

This forward-thinking, non-traditional reference work uniquely maps out how new developments in 21st century philosophy are entering into dialogue with the study of literature. Going beyond the familiar methods of analytic philosophy, and with a breadth greater than 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.

About the Authors

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).