The Reject
Community, Politics, and Religion After the Subject
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2014
384 pages
978-0-8232-6271-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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English
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NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
File size
3,66 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-8232-6271-7 (9780823262717)
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Irving Goh is Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham University Press, 2014), which won the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Best Book in French and Francophone Studies. His second monograph, L'existence prepositionnelle, was published by Galilee in 2019. With Jean-Luc Nancy, he published The Deconstruction of Sex (Duke University Press, 2021). He is also editor of French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK (Routledge, 2019), coeditor with Verena Andermatt Conley of Nancy Now (Polity, 2014), and coeditor with Timothy Murray of the diacritics special issue on "The Prepositional Senses of Jean-Luc Nancy" (2 volumes, 2014-15).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface: A Book for Everyone
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Let's Drop the Subject
- 2 (After) Friendship, Love, and Community
- 3 The Reject and the "Postsecular," or Who's Afraid of Religion
- 4 Prolegomenon to Reject Politics: From Voyous to Becoming-Animal
- 5 Clinamen, or the Auto-Reject for "Posthuman" Futures
- 6 Conclusion: Incompossibility, Being-in-Common, Abandonment, and the Auto-Reject
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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