What''s These Worlds Coming To?

One of the world's leading philosophers and an emerging astrophysicist revive the ancient philosophical practice of cosmology for our time. Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurélien Barrau's collaboration is a study of life, plural worlds, and what the authors call the struction of new worlds. It is also a radical revisioning of post-structuralist thought (from deconstruction to struction) and contemporary physics (from a universe to a multiverse).

About the author

Jean-Luc Nancy, and Aurélien Barrau, Translated by Travis Holloway, and Flor Méchain, Foreword by David Pettigrew

Summary

Our contemporary challenge, according to the authors, is that a new world has quietly cropped up on us and is, in fact, already here. In this book, the authors invite us on an uncharted walk into barely known worlds when an everyday French idiom, "What's this world coming to?," is used to question our conventional thinking about the world.

Product details

• Authors: Aurelien Barrau, Aurélien Barrau, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean-Luc Barrau Nancy, Jean-Luc/ Barrau Nancy
• Assisted by: Travis Holloway (Translation), Flor Mechain (Translation), Flor Méchain (Translation)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2014
• EAN: 9780823263332
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6333-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day