The reject : community, politics, and religion after the subject / Irving Goh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goh, Irving, author.

Series:

Commonalities.

Commonalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rejection (Psychology).

Outcasts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface: A Book For Everyone

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. (After) Friendship, Love, and Community

3. The Reject And The “Postsecular,” or Who’s Afraid of Religion

4. Prolegomenon to Reject Politics

5. Clinamen, or the Auto-Reject for “Posthuman” Futures.

6. Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Commonalities

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8232-6269-3

0-8232-6637-0

0-8232-6271-5

0-8232-6272-3

OCLC:

889644693