UID:
almahu_9949287738702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (352 p.) :
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2 B/W illustrations
ISBN:
9781474483117
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9783110754001
Serie:
Speculative Realism : SPRE
Inhalt:
Presents post-apocalyptic fiction as a unique source of new realist ontologiesShows how new realism reshapes humanistic inquiry in the age of climate changeContributes to the rehabilitation and reframing of realism after postmodernismIntroduces a new contextual and ecological realism that reconnects the human cultural world with non-humans and the environmentWhat is the singular reality of humanistic objects of study? By pairing post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories, Monika Kaup shows that, just as new realist theory can illuminate post-apocalyptic literature, post-apocalyptic literature also embeds new theories of the real.Kaup showcases a context-based concept of the real, arguing that new realisms of complex and embedded wholes, actor-networks and ecologies, rather than old realisms of isolated parts and things, represent the most promising escape from the impasses of constructivism and positivism. To achieve this, Kaup brings together contemporary theories that formulate context-based realisms: Bruno Latour's actor-network theoryChilean neurophenomenologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's theories of autopoiesis and enactivismGerman philosopher Markus Gabriel's new ontology of fields of senseFrench philosopher Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of givennessAmerican philosopher Alphonso Lingis's phenomenology of passionate identification
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Series Editor's Preface --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction --
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1 New Ecological Realisms and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction --
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2 The New Realism of the Factish and the Political Ecology of Humans and Non-Humans: Bruno Latour and Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy --
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3 The Ontology of Knowledge as the Enaction of Mind and World: Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's Autopoietic Theory and José Saramago's Blindness --
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4 Apocalypse as Field of Sense: Markus Gabriel's Ontology of Fields of Sense and Octavia Butler's Parable Series --
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5 New Phenomenologies after Poststructuralism (Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124
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EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899
In:
Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110780406
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781474483117
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474483117
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474483117
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