
We Ourselves
The Politics of Us, Letting Be II
Tristan Garcia(Author)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 5. January 2021
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-1-4744-7524-2 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout the history of human societies, the question of 'we' has always entailed the question of 'us and them', the reconciliation of which can either give birth to or mark the end of a politics. Tristan Garcia's radical historicisation of the ways we have imagined ourselves is more than a commentary on the dynamics of representation in a given society. This work is a rigorous engagement with the history of humanity's attempts at being collectively. For fans of The Life Intense, the first volume in the Letting Be series, We Ourselves is the next step in the development of Garcia's thought, but for those who have not read it, it also stands alone. Garcia provides a methodological framework that critically reinvigorates our dreams of the society to come and clears the way for the return to ontology in Letting Be III.
Reviews / Votes
As an editor, I often issue warnings to writers about the presumptive we. When you say 'we', you make assumptions about who is included and excluded. We usually just avoid 'we' instead. In this book, Tristan Garcia builds a political philosophy around doing the opposite - keeping 'we', but exploding it into a thousand possible embraces. -- Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of TechnologyMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7524-2 (9781474475242)
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Persons
Tristan Garcia is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon and an award-winning novelist. He is the author of La vie intense: Une obsession moderne, translated into English as The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Forme et objet. Un traite des choses (PUF, 2011), translated into English as Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). His other philosophical works include L'Image and Nous. His fictional works include Les cordelettes de Browser, En l'absence de classement final and Memoires de la jungle. In 2008, he received the Prix de Flore for La meilleure part des hommes, translated into English as Hate: A Romance. Christopher RayAlexander is an independent scholar Abigail RayAlexander is Assistant Professor of French at Kennesaw State University Jon Cogburn is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is co-translator of The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession. Together with Mark Ohm, he is the co-translator of Tristan Garcia's Form and Object, and is the author of Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
Author
Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Lyon
Translation
Assistant Professor of FrenchKennesaw State University
Professor of PhilosophyLouisiana State University
Content
Series Editor's PrefaceGraham Harman
Book I: Transparencies
The first person plural
Everyone-we-I
Three objections
Every we is a system of divisions
Conflicts of division
The intersection model
The transparency model
The contour
The overlap
Transparency and opacity
Re-covering
The bottom
Book II: Constraints
1. The Ground of We
2. Dynamic
3. Domination
4. The End of We
Bibliography
Index
Book I: Transparencies
The first person plural
Everyone-we-I
Three objections
Every we is a system of divisions
Conflicts of division
The intersection model
The transparency model
The contour
The overlap
Transparency and opacity
Re-covering
The bottom
Book II: Constraints
1. The Ground of We
2. Dynamic
3. Domination
4. The End of We
Bibliography
Index