Roland Végsö

Worldlessness After Heidegger

Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction

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Produktbeschreibung

Roland Végso opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Opening with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, he traces the overlooked history of worldlessness in Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 188mm x 135mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781474457620
• ISBN-10: 1474457622
• Artikelnr.: 57837910

Autorenporträt

Roland Végsö is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture (Fordham University Press, 2013). He is co-editor of Life After Literature: Constructions of Life in Literature and Theory (Springer, forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Orbis non sufficit (An Introduction)
1. The Metaphysics of Worldlessness
2. The Politics of Worldlessness
3. The Science of Worldlessness
4. The Phenomenology of Worldlessness
5. The Logics of Worldlessness
Contra mundum (A Conclusion)
References.