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Looking at the breadth of Joan Didion’s writing, from journalism,
essays, fiction, memoir and screen plays, it may appear that there
is no unifying thread, but Matthew R. McLennan argues that ‘the
ethics of memory’ – the question of which norms should guide
public and private remembrance – offers a promising vision of
what is most characteristic and salient in Didion’s works. By
framing her universe as indifferent and essentially precarious,
McLennan demonstrates how this outlook guides Didion’s
reflections on key themes linked to memory: namely witnessing and
grieving, nostalgia, and the paradoxically amnesiac qualities of
our increasingly archived public life that she explored in famous
texts like Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Year of Magical
Thinking and Salvador. McLennan moves beyond the interpretive value
of such an approach and frames Didion as a serious, iconoclastic
philosopher of time and memory. Through her encounters with the
past, the writer is shown to offer lessons for the future in an
increasingly perilous and unsettled world.
Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of
central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an
increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these
subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of
the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived
experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense
of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and
Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary
"nonphilosophers" to make its argument: French filmmaker and
novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural
commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist
Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in
which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a
militant philosophical universalism in the future.
Alain Badiou's work in philosophy, though daunting, has gained a
receptive and steadily growing Anglophone readership. What is not
well known is the extent to which Badiou's positions, vis-a-vis
ontology, ethics, politics and the very meaning of philosophy, were
hammered out in dispute with the late Jean-Francois Lyotard.
Matthew R. McLennan's Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy is the
first work to pose the question of the relation between Lyotard and
Badiou, and in so doing constitutes a significant intervention in
the field of contemporary European philosophy by revisiting one of
its most influential and controversial forefathers. Badiou himself
has underscored the importance of Lyotard for his own project;
might the recent resurgence of interest in Lyotard be tied in some
way to Badiou's comments? Or deeper still: might not Badiou's
philosophical Platonism beg an encounter with philosophy's other,
the figure of the sophist that Lyotard played so often and so ably?
Posing pertinent questions and opening new discursive channels in
the literature on these two major figures this book is of interest
to those studying philosophy, rhetoric, literary theory, cultural
and media studies.
Issues surrounding precarity, debility and vulnerability are now of
central concern to philosophers as we try and navigate an
increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these
subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of
the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived
experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense
of the finitude and fragility of human life, Philosophy and
Vulnerability provocatively marshals three disciplinary
"nonphilosophers" to make its argument: French filmmaker and
novelist Catherine Breillat, journalist and masterful cultural
commentator Joan Didion and feminist poet and civil rights activist
Audre Lorde. Through this encounter, this book suggests ways in
which rigorous attention to difference and diversity must nourish a
militant philosophical universalism in the future.
Looking at the breadth of Joan Didion’s writing, from journalism,
essays, fiction, memoir and screen plays, it may appear that there
is no unifying thread, but Matthew R. McLennan argues that ‘the
ethics of memory’ – the question of which norms should guide
public and private remembrance – offers a promising vision of
what is most characteristic and salient in Didion’s works. By
framing her universe as indifferent and essentially precarious,
McLennan demonstrates how this outlook guides Didion’s
reflections on key themes linked to memory: namely witnessing and
grieving, nostalgia, and the paradoxically amnesiac qualities of
our increasingly archived public life that she explored in famous
texts like Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Year of Magical
Thinking and Salvador. McLennan moves beyond the interpretive value
of such an approach and frames Didion as a serious, iconoclastic
philosopher of time and memory. Through her encounters with the
past, the writer is shown to offer lessons for the future in an
increasingly perilous and unsettled world.
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