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Nonmodern practices : latour and literary studies /

This collection of essays responds to the urgent call in the humanities to go beyond the act of negative critique which, so far, has been the dominant form of intellectual inquiry in academia. The contributors take their inspiration from Bruno Latour's pragmatic, relational approach and his phi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Arnould-Bloomfield, Elisabeth (Editor), Chi-ah Lyu, Claire (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Subjects:
Latour, Bruno > Criticism and interpretation.
Latour, Bruno > Philosophy.
Critical theory.
Negativity (Philosophy)
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
Political science > Philosophy.
Criticism > Methodology.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword William Paulson (University of Michigan, USA)
  • Introduction Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
  • Part I Early Modern Tradition from a Latourian Relational Perspective
  • 1. "Nonmodern Humanism": A Relational Reading of Latour and Montaigne Jan Miernowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
  • 2. Practices of Early Modern Orientalism: A Latourian Perspective Oumelbanine Zhiri (University of California, San Diego, USA) Part II
  • Reassessing the Literary and Political Modernity with Latour
  • 3. Nonmodern Flaubert William Paulson (University of Michigan, USA)
  • 4 Latour, Stengers, and Nonmodern Poetry Claire Chi-ah Lyu (University of Virginia, USA)
  • 5. Kafka's Whipper and Joyce's Pandybat: Reading Scenes of Discipline with Latour Gabriel Hankins (Clemson University, USA)
  • 6. Michelet's Nonmodernity Maxime Goergen ( University of Sheffield , UK) Part III
  • Latour's Contributions to the Field of Contemporary Animal Studies
  • 7. Landing in Animal Territories Vinciane Despret ( University of Lig̈e , Belgium)
  • 8. Composing with the "Animal Side" Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Part IV
  • Issues of Practical Concern Related to Latour's Thinking
  • 9 Latour's Interpretation of Donald Trump Graham Harman (SCI-Arc, USA, and European Graduate School)
  • 10. The Literary Worlds: Indigenous and Western Network Ethnography Stephen Muecke (Flinders University, Australia ) Afterword Rita Felski (University of Virginia, USA, and University of Southern Denmark)
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index