Reject - Community, Politics, and Religion After the Subject

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Irving Goh

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Irving Goh
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2014
• EAN: 9780823262694
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6269-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Commonalities; Commonalities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education