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THE REJECT
COMMUNITY, POLITICS, AND RELIGION AFTER THE SUBJECT |
| By: |
Irving Goh |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£20.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0823262715 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780823262717 |
| Publisher: |
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 October, 2014 |
| Series: |
Commonalities |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh 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, he argues, presents a special urgency to think the reject today.Thinking the reject most importantly helps to advance our commitment to affirm others without acculturating their differences. But the reject also offers, Goh proposes, a response finally commensurate with the radical horizon of Nancy's question of who comes after the subject. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Fordham University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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