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A01=Roland Vegso
Alain Badiou
Author_Roland Vegs
Author_Roland Vegso
Category=QDHR
Category=QDTS
Continental philosophy
Deconstruction
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Hannah Arendt
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan
Levi Bryant
Markus Gabriel
Martin Heidegger
Phenomenology
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Timothy Morton
Worldlessness
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- ISBN 9781474457613
- Dimensions: 135 x 190mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2020
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Roland Végső opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Opening with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, he goes on to trace the overlooked history of this argument in the works of Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou. This critical genealogy shows that the post-Heideggerian critique of the phenomenological tradition remained limited by its unquestioning investment in the category of the ‘world’. As a way out of this historical predicament, Végsö encourages us to create affirmative definitions of worldlessness.
Roland Végsö is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of The Naked Communist: Cold War Modernism and the Politics of Popular Culture (Fordham University Press, 2013). He is co-editor of Life After Literature: Constructions of Life in Literature and Theory (Springer, forthcoming).
