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This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.
Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows how the reject has always been nascent in contemporary French thought. The recent turn to animals and bare life, as well as the rise of the Occupy movement, he argues, presents a special urgency to think the reject today.
Thinking the reject most importantly helps to advance our commitment to affirm others without acculturating their differences. But the reject also offers, Goh proposes, a response finally commensurate with the radical horizon of Nancy's question of who comes after the subject.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface: A Book for Everyone Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Let's Drop the Subject 1 2. (After) Friendship, Love, and Community 3. The Reject and the "Post-Secular," or Who's Afraid of Religion 4. Prolegomenon to Reject Politics: From Voyous to Becoming-Animal 5. Clinamen, or the Auto-Reject for "Posthuman" Futures 6. Conclusion: Incompossibility, Being-in-Common, Abandonment, and the Auto-Reject Notes Bibliography Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Irving Goh is Associate Professor of Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of
The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject (Fordham University Press, 2014), which won the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Best Book in French and Francophone Studies. His second monograph,
L'existence prépositionnelle, was published by Galilée in 2019. With Jean-Luc Nancy, he published T
he Deconstruction of Sex (Duke University Press, 2021). He is also editor of
French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK (Routledge, 2019), coeditor with Verena Andermatt Conley of
Nancy Now (Polity, 2014), and coeditor with Timothy Murray of the
diacritics special issue on "The Prepositional Senses of Jean-Luc Nancy" (2 volumes, 2014-15).
Zusammenfassung
This book proposes the reject as the figure of thought for our contemporaneous times. It shows how the reject can open us to radical forms of relations, democratic horizons, and “post-secular” and “posthuman” futures not only beyond anthropocentric limits, but also in ways by which others and their differences are affirmed respectfully.
