On Contemporaneity, After Agamben: The Concept and Its Times by Baross, Zsuzsa

On Contemporaneity, After Agamben: The Concept and Its Times

Who are our contemporaries today? Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, or Giorgio Agamben, or the already neglected Althusser...
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On Contemporaneity, After Agamben: The Concept and Its Times by Baross, Zsuzsa

On Contemporaneity, After Agamben: The Concept and Its Times

$179.13

On Contemporaneity, After Agamben: The Concept and Its Times

$179.13
Author: Zsuzsa Baross
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Who are our contemporaries today? Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Nancy, or Giorgio Agamben, or the already neglected Althusser or Lacoue-Labarthe? From among the thinkers of the last great generation of the past century, who are the precursors whose voice is strong enough to speak to our present today? when the nature of time itself is uncertain: a time of mutation (Nancy), a change of epoch (Blanchot), an epoch without an epoch (Stiegler), or more catastrophically, the time of the geocide (Deguy)? Is it Bataille (Inner Experience) or Blanchot (The Writing of the Disaster) who anticipates the future that is already our present? Or Derrida who announced the unsurpassable dilemma of the law of hospitality? Announced a future to be presented only as a monstrosity? Or is it rather Deleuze, whose geo-philosophy already dispenses with the subject, privileges matter over spirit, and subordinates the great movements of peoples and animals of history and revolution, the political and the social
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Author: Zsuzsa Baross
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 03/11/2020
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781845199913

About the Author
Zsuzsa Baross, Professor Emerita of Cultural Theory at Trent University, Canada, is the author of The Scandal of Disease in Theory and Discourse (University of Amsterdam, 1988), Posthumously: For Jacques Derrida (SAP, 2010), and Encounters: Gérard Titus-Carmel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Claire Denis. She has published a wide number of essays in anthologies and journals, including International Studies in Philosophy, New Literary History and Derrida Today. Recently she has been collaborating and publishing with Artistic Research, Orpheus Instituut in Gent, Belgium.

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