Nonmodern Practices

Latour and Literary Studies

Professor or Dr. Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield, Professor or Dr. Claire Chi-ah Lyu (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2022
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-6927-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield is Associate Professor of French at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of Georges Bataille, la terreur et les lettres (2009). Claire Chi-ah Lyu is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia, USA. She is the author of A Sun within a Sun: The Power and Elegance of Poetry (2006).

Foreword
William Paulson (University of Michigan, USA)
Introduction
Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Part I Early Modern Tradition from a Latourian Relational Perspective
1. “Nonmodern Humanism”: A Relational Reading of Latour and Montaigne
Jan Miernowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
2. Practices of Early Modern Orientalism: A Latourian Perspective
Oumelbanine Zhiri (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Part II Reassessing the Literary and Political Modernity with Latour
3. Nonmodern Flaubert
William Paulson (University of Michigan, USA)
4 Latour, Stengers, and Nonmodern Poetry
Claire Chi-ah Lyu (University of Virginia, USA)
5. Kafka's Whipper and Joyce's Pandybat: Reading Scenes of Discipline with Latour
Gabriel Hankins (Clemson University, USA)
6. Michelet's Nonmodernity
Maxime Goergen (University of Sheffield, UK)
Part III Latour's Contributions to the Field of Contemporary Animal Studies
7. Landing in Animal Territories
Vinciane Despret (University of Liège, Belgium)
8. Composing with the “Animal Side”
Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Part IV Issues of Practical Concern Related to Latour's Thinking
9 Latour's Interpretation of Donald Trump
Graham Harman (SCI-Arc, USA, and European Graduate School)
10. The Literary Worlds: Indigenous and Western Network Ethnography
Stephen Muecke (Flinders University, Australia)
Afterword
Rita Felski (University of Virginia, USA, and University of Southern Denmark)
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-6927-X / 150136927X
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-6927-8 / 9781501369278
Zustand	Neuware