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Khalip, Jacques

 
9780823279555: Last Things: Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar
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ISBN 10 : 0823279553 ISBN 13 : 9780823279555
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The arrival of the Anthropocene brings the suggestion that we are only now beginning to speculate on an inhuman world that is not for us, only now confronting fears and anxieties of ecological, political, social, and philosophical extinction. While pointing out that reflections on disaster were not foreign to what we historically call romanticism, Last Things pushes romantic thought toward an altogether new way of conceiving the "end of things," one that treats lastness as neither privation nor conclusion. Through quieter, non-emphatic modes of thinking the end of human thought, Khalip explores lastness as what marks the limits of our life and world. Reading the fate of romanticism--and romantic studies--within the key of the last, Khalip refuses to elegize or celebrate our ends, instead positing romanticism as a negative force that exceeds theories, narratives, and figures of survival and sustainability.

Each chapter explores a range of romantic and contemporary materials: poetry by John Clare, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Percy Shelley, and William Wordsworth; philosophical texts by William Godwin, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau; paintings by Hubert Robert, Caspar David Friedrich, and Paterson Ewen; installations by Tatsuo Miyajima and James Turrell; and photography by John Dugdale, Peter Hujar, and Joanna Kane. Shuttling between temporalities, Last Things undertakes an original reorganization of romantic thought for contemporary culture. It examines an archive on the side of disappearance, perishing, the inhuman, and lastness.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, and co-editor of Releasing The Image: From Literature to New Media and Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism.

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Éditeur
Fordham University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0823279553
ISBN 13 
9780823279555
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780823279548: Last Things: Disastrous Form from Kant to Hujar

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ISBN 10 :  0823279545 ISBN 13 :  9780823279548
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2018
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