Research Catalog

Title

Nonmodern practices : latour and literary studies / edited by Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield and Claire Chi-ah Lyu.

Publication

• New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Arnould-Bloomfield, Elisabeth
• Lyu, Claire Chi-ah

Description

x, 260 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This collection of essays responds to the urgent call in the humanities to go beyond the act of negative critique which, so far, has been the dominant form of intellectual inquiry in academia. The contributors take their inspiration from Bruno Latour's pragmatic, relational approach and his philosophy of hybrid world where culture is immanent to nature and knowledge is tied to the things it co-creates. In such a world, nature, society, and discourse relate to, rather than negate, each other. The 11 essays, ranging from early modern humanism and modern theorization of literature to contemporary political ecology and animal studies, propose new productive ways of thinking, reading, and writing with, not against, the world. In carrying out concrete practices that are inclusive, rather than exclusive, contributors strive to exemplify a form of scholarship that might be better attuned to the concerns of our post-humanist era."--

Subject

• Latour, Bruno > Criticism and interpretation
• Latour, Bruno > Philosophy
• Literature > Philosophy
• Negativity (Philosophy)
• Philosophy, Modern > 20th century
• Criticism > Methodology
• Critical theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. For a "Literary Anthropology" / Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield -- Part One: Early modern tradition from a Latourian relational perspective. "Nonmodern Humanism" : a relational reading of Latour and Montaigne / Jan Miernowski -- Practices of early modern orientalism : a Latourian perspective / Oumelbanine Zhiri -- Part Two: Reassessing the literary and political modernity with Latour. Nonmodern Flaubert / William Paulson -- Latour, Stengers, and nonmodern poetry / Claire Chi-ah Lyu -- Kafka's Whipper and Joyce's Pandybat : reading scenes of discipline with Latour / Gabriel Hankins -- Michelet's nonmodernity / Maxime Goergen -- Part Three: Latour's contributions to the field of contemporary animal studies. Landing in animal territories / Vinciane Despret -- Composing with the "Animal Side" / Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield -- Part Four: Issues of practical concern related to Latour's thinking. Latour's interpretation of Donald Trump / Graham Harman -- The literary worlds : indigenous and Western network ethnography / Stephen Muecke -- Afterword. On the ambiguities of the modern / Rita Felski.

Call Number

JFE 21-2127

ISBN

• 9781501354281
• 1501354280
• 9781501354298 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781501354304 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1142023995

Title

Nonmodern practices : latour and literary studies / edited by Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield and Claire Chi-ah Lyu.

Publisher

New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Arnould-Bloomfield, Elisabeth, editor.

Lyu, Claire Chi-ah, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2127