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- What's These Worlds Coming To?
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Forms of Living
summary
new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer build sovereign, hierarchical political institutions; we form local assemblies and networks of cross-national assemblages—and we do this at the same time as we form multinational corporations that no longer pay taxes to the State. In such a time, one of the world’s most eminent philosophers and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology. Nancy and Barrau’s work is a study of life, plural worlds, and what the authors call the struction or rebuilding of these worlds._x000B_ _x000B_Nancy and Barrau 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. We soon find ourselves living among heaps of odd bits and pieces that are amassing without any unifying force or center, living not only in a time of ruin and fragmentation, but of rebuilding. Astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau articulates a major shift in the paradigm of contemporary physics from a universe to a multiverse. Meanwhile, Jean-Luc Nancy's essay “Of Struction” is a contemporary comment on the project of deconstruction and French post-structuralist thought. Together Barrau and Nancy argue that contemporary thought has shifted from deconstruction to what they carefully call the struction of dis-order. _x000B_
Table of Contents
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- Foreword: To Inhabit a World
- pp. ix-xvi
- Translators' Preface
- pp. xvii-xxiv
- More Than One
- pp. 8-20
- Less Than One, Then
- pp. 21-41
- Of Struction
- pp. 42-58
- . . . And of Unistruction
- pp. 59-88
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823263370
Related ISBN(s)
9780823263332
MARC Record
OCLC
891351226
Pages
144
Launched on MUSE
2014-09-25
Language
English
Open Access
No