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Abrogated Capabilities
Anthropological Theory
Anthropology
Anti-Matter
Author_Mark Payne
Ben Jeffery
Books About Human Capabilitiles
Books About Human Capability
Capitalism
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Criticism
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Eugene Thacker
Forms of Life
Ghosts of My Life
Hauntology
Hontology
Human Capabilities
Human Capability
In the Dust of This Planet
Jacques Derrida
Late Capitalism
Loss of the New World
Mark Fisher
Marx
Modernity
Native American Culture
New World
Shame
Specters of Marx
Speculative Fiction
The Weird Tale
Theory of Hontology
Theory of Shame
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- ISBN 9781785357312
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2018
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx has had an enormous influence on recent thought about the fate of human capabilities in late capitalism, especially in Europe. Hontology explores a road not taken in Specters of Marx - the idea that shame is the route by which we access the capabilities for living that are abrogated in modernity. More particularly still, the book considers the loss of the New World as an horizon in which these abrogated capabilities were still in play, and the inhabitants of the New World as presenting forms of life before which Europeans felt shame in comparison with their own. Finally, the book discusses what might take the place of the New World now that its productive horizon of shame has receded from view.
Mark Payne is Professor in the Department of Classics and the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction and The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination, which RECEIVED the 2011 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. Mark has also published articles on poetry, poetics, and ancient ideas of life.
