The reject : community, politics, and religion after the subject /
This title proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the post-secular, and the post-human. Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clément, Bataille, Balibar, Rancière, and Badiou, it shows how t...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York, New York : Fordham University Press, 2015. |
| Series: | Commonalities.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | This title proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the post-secular, and the post-human. Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clément, Bataille, Balibar, Rancière, and Badiou, it shows how the reject has always been nascent in contemporary French thought. The recent turn to animals and bare life, as well as the rise of the Occupy movement, also present a special urgency to think the reject today. This book proposes the reject as the figure of thought for our contemporaneous times. It shows how the reject can open us to radical forms of relations, democratic horizons, and "post-secular" and "posthuman" futures not only beyond anthropocentric limits, but also in ways by which others and their differences are affirmed respectfully. |
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| Item Description: | Print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (381 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823262717 0823262715 9780823262724 0823262723 9780823262700 0823262707 |
| Author Notes: | Irving Goh received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University in 2012 and is currently Visiting Scholar at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell. |