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The logic of modernity is an ironical logic. Modern irony, a flash
of genius produced by Romantic theorists, is first discussed, e.g.
in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as an ethical problem personified in
figures such as the aesthete, the seducer, the flaneur, or the
dandy. It fully develops in the novel, the modern genre par
excellence: in novels of the early 19th century no less than in
those of postmodernity or in those of the masters of citation,
parody, and pastiche of classical modernism (Musil, Joyce, and
Proust). This book, however, goes one step further. Looking at how
such different authors as Schmitt, Kafka, and Rorty identify the
political conflicts, contradictions, and paradoxes of the 20th
century as ironical and offers a comprehensive account of the
constitutive irony of modernity's ethical, poetical, and political
logic.
This minutely detailed examination of a supposedly small
grammatical detail, the use of the present tense, opens up new
perspectives on a founding myth of the aesthetics of modernity: the
longing for presence. This collection approaches the issue by
documenting how the present tense became dominant in the 20th
century novel. The authors draw on perspectives in fiction theory
and narratology to delineate facets of this fundamental shift in
literary aesthetics from the past tense to the present.
Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy
this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of
reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world
and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another
subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme,
reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia-
meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this
kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to
accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is
that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any
impact on the world outside our brains? Innovatively tackling these
questions, this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics,
literary theory, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It
re-articulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic,
creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of
language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us
as well.
Genealogies of Speculation looks to break the impasse between the
innovations of speculative thought and the dominant strands of 20th
century anti-foundationalist philosophy. Challenging emerging
paradigms of philosophical history, this text re-evaluates
different theoretical and political traditions such as feminism,
literary theory, social geography and political theory after the
speculative turn in philosophy. With contributions from leading
writers in contemporary thought this book is a crucial resource for
studying cultural and art-theory and continental philosophy.
Genealogies of Speculation looks to break the impasse between the
innovations of speculative thought and the dominant strands of 20th
century anti-foundationalist philosophy. Challenging emerging
paradigms of philosophical history, this text re-evaluates
different theoretical and political traditions such as feminism,
literary theory, social geography and political theory after the
speculative turn in philosophy. With contributions from leading
writers in contemporary thought this book is a crucial resource for
studying cultural and art-theory and continental philosophy.
The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose
importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting.
From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of
the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense
has, over the course of its century-long evolution, changed the
conditions of fictional narration, along with our conceptions of
time in a philosophical and linguistic framework. Indeed, to
understand the work of an increasing number of contemporary writers
- J.M. Coetzee, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, to name only a few -
it is necessary to both understand the distinct linguistic and
literary qualities of the present tense as well as its historical
transformation into a genuine tense of contemporary storytelling.
For the first time in literary scholarship, Present Tense: A
Poetics offers an account of a profound development in 20th- and
21st-century fiction.
Soren Kierkegaards radical protestant philosophy of the individual
-- in which a persons leap of faith is favoured over general ethics
-- has become a model for many contemporary political theorists.
Thinkers such as Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou have drawn on its
revolutionary spirit to position truth above the constraints of
political systems. In Kierkegaard and Political Theory,
contributors from a wide range of disciplines -- including
theology, sociology, philosophy, and aesthetics -- examine just how
crucial Kierkegaards anti-institutional thinking has been to such
efforts and to modernity as a whole. The contributors convincingly
position Kierkegaards radical philosophy as the starting point for
contemporary political theory. They show how he pioneered a
modernity defined as an argument -- an experience -- of the
impossibility of rationally comprehending a system of thinking.
They show how religious and aesthetic experiences function as a
response to this impossibility, how their coherence in politics
must always be questioned, especially in historys extreme example:
totalitarianism. Engaging this and many other subjects, they
provide a compelling new line in Kierkegaard studies that
illuminates new contours of our political thought.
An apparently contradictory yet radically urgent collection of
texts tracing the genealogy of a controversial current in
contemporary philosophy. Accelerationism is the name of a
contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radical
political response to capitalism is not to protest, disrupt,
critique, or detourne it, but to accelerate and exacerbate its
uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies.
#Accelerate presents a genealogy of accelerationism, tracking the
impulse through 90s UK darkside cyberculture and the
theory-fictions of Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Iain Grant, and CCRU,
across the cultural underground of the 80s (rave, acid house, SF
cinema) and back to its sources in delirious post-68 ferment, in
texts whose searing nihilistic jouissance would later be disavowed
by their authors and the marxist and academic establishment alike.
On either side of this central sequence, the book includes texts by
Marx that call attention to his own "Prometheanism," and key works
from recent years document the recent extraordinary emergence of
new accelerationisms steeled against the onslaughts of neoliberal
capitalist realism, and retooled for the twenty-first century. At
the forefront of the energetic contemporary debate around this
disputed, problematic term, #Accelerate activates a historical
conversation about futurality, technology, politics, enjoyment, and
capital. This is a legacy shot through with contradictions, yet
urgently galvanized today by the poverty of "reasonable"
contemporary political alternatives.
Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy
this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of
reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world
and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another
subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme,
reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia-
meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this
kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to
accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is
that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any
impact on the world outside our brains? Tackling these questions,
this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics, literary theory,
philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It re-articulates
linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic, creative moment
of language and sheds light on the ability of language to transform
not only our thinking but the world around us as well.
The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose
importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting.
From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of
the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense
has, over the course of its century-long evolution, changed the
conditions of fictional narration, along with our conceptions of
time in a philosophical and linguistic framework. Indeed, to
understand the work of an increasing number of contemporary writers
- J.M. Coetzee, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, to name only a few -
it is necessary to both understand the distinct linguistic and
literary qualities of the present tense as well as its historical
transformation into a genuine tense of contemporary storytelling.
For the first time in literary scholarship, Present Tense: A
Poetics offers an account of a profound development in 20th- and
21st-century fiction.
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