New directions in philosophy and literature Rudrum, David 1974- editor. Askin, Ridvan editor. Beckman, Frida editor. text bibliography stk 2019 2019 monographic eng print x, 486 pages ; 25 cm 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.-- Editors' Preface -- General Introduction: Opposition of the Faculties, Philosophy's Literary Impossibility / Claire Colebrook -- Part I. Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary. Editor's Introduction / David Rudrum -- 1. The Polymodern Condition: A Report on Cluelessness / David Rudrum -- 2. Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic - A Case Study into Contemporary Autofiction / Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons and Timotheus Vermeulen -- 3. The Ends of Metafiction, or, The Romantic Time of Egan's Goon Squad / Josh Toth -- 4. Virtually Human: Posthumanism and (Post-)postmodern Cyberspace in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story / Nicky Gardiner -- Part II: Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism. Editor's Introduction / Ridvan Askin -- 5. Hélène Cixous's So Close; or, Moving Matters on the Subject / Birgit Mara Kaiser -- 6. Meillassoux, the Critique of Correlationism, and British Romanticism / Evan Gottlieb -- 7. Fictional Objects Fictional Subjects / Graham Priest -- 8. On the Death of Meaning / R. Scott Bakker -- Part III: Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms. Editor's Introduction / Ridvan Askin -- 9. Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour's Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment / Babette B. Tischleder -- 10. Three Problems of Formalism: An Object-Oriented View / Graham Harman -- 11. A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation, and Wor(l)ding / Helen Palmer -- 12. Emerson's Speculative Pragmatism / Ridvan Askin -- Part IV: Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy. Editor's Introduction / David Rudrum -- 13. Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty Reading Orwell - Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature / Ingeborg Löfgren -- 14. Stanley Cavell and the Politics of Modernism / R.M. Berry -- 15. Inferentialist Semantics, Intimationist Aesthetics, and Walden / Bryan Vescio -- Part V: Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene. Editor's Introduction / Frida Beckman -- 16. Living to Tell the Story: Characterisation, Narrative Perspective, and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels / Astrid Bracke -- 17. Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: Ian McEwan's Solar, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood / Robert P. Marzec -- 18. The Day of the Dark Precursor: Philosophy, Fiction, and Fabulation at the End of the World - A Ficto-Critical Guide / Charlie Blake -- 19. So to Speak / Adrian Parr -- Part VI: Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control. Editor's Introduction / Frida Beckman -- 20. Literature's Biopolitics / Rey Chow -- 21. We Have Been Paranoid Too Long to Stop Now / Frida Beckman and Charlie Blake -- 22. Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US Fiction / David Watson -- 23. Automatic Art, Automated Trading: Finance, Fiction, and Philosophy / Arne De Boever. edited by David Rudrum, Ridvan Askin, and Frida Beckman. Includes bibliographical references and index. Literature Philosophy Philosophy, Modern 21st century Literature Philosophy Philosophy, Modern 2000-2099 fast PN45 .N49 2019 801 9781474449144 147444914X 9781474449168 9781474449175 pda,print YDX 190211 20250318223308.7 in00004163784 eng