Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity Life - Couverture rigide

Adler, Anthony Curtis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0823270793 ISBN 13 : 9780823270798

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go "back to the things themselves" when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary and experimental theoretical interventions, Anthony Curtis Adler rethinks Marxist materialism and the Heideggerian project in terms of the singular experiences of late capitalism. In doing so, he reveals how the disarticulation of life via the commodity fetish demands at once a new notion of phenomenological method and an ontology oriented toward the radical contingency of being itself as transcendental ground.

Biographie de l'auteur

Anthony Curtis Adler is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yonsei University's Underwood International College in South Korea.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0823270793
• ISBN 13: 9780823270798
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264