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forthcoming
gender
Giorgio Agamben
Hannah Arendt
Judith Butler
literary
Martin Heidegger
Michel Foucault
performance and philosophy
theatre
Theodor W. Adorno
truth
Werner Hamacher
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- ISBN 9781526187567
- Weight: 534g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In fresh readings of Theodor W. Adorno, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler, Barbara Cassin, Michel Foucault, Werner Hamacher, Martin Heidegger, and many more, Gotman rearticulates the foundations of broadly western philosophical thinking to carve out a shadowy space of recalcitrant thought ‘in dark times’. At once indebted to the legacy of critique and enmeshed in affective and performative approaches to language, anti-theatricality, critical race theory and gender studies, she weaves a poetic mesh of intimate fragments, reflections on what it means to think and to write, as she puts it, after spectacle. Almost but not quite a straight work of philosophy, distinctly literary and performative in its anti-genre, this book twists and turns, swerves and cuts, to show the work of thinking as an intimate act – a theatre of angles and openings, adjacencies and reverberations.
Kélina Gotman is Professor of Performance and the Humanities at King’s College London
