Benjamin Boysen

Gebundenes Buch

The Embarrassment of Being Human

A Critical Essay on the New Materialisms and Modernity in an Age of Crisis

Beschreibung

The Embarrassment of Being Human displays how the new materialisms are beset by grave theoretical and practical inconsistencies and self-contradictions.

Autor

Benjamin Boysen, PhD. and Dr.Phil., is author of The Ethics of Love: An Essay on James Joyce (2013), Nothingness, Negativity, and Nominalism in Shakespeare and Petrarch (2021), and the two Danish books, At være en anden: Essays om intethed, ambivalens og fremmedhed hos Francesco Petrarca og William Shakespeare [Being Another: Essays on Nothingness, Ambivalence, and Strangeness in Francesco Petrarch and William Shakespeare] (2007) and Digtning og filosofi hos Platon [Poetry and Philosophy in Plato] (2020), and he has, with Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen, co-edited a critical anthology Against the New Materialisms (2023). Boysen is currently working on a monograph, The Madness of Thinking, focusing on the relationship between philosophy and literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 20
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 708g
• ISBN-13: 9781032812298
• ISBN-10: 103281229X
• Artikelnr.: 71561520