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- The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Commonalities
summary
This book proposes a theory of the reject, a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship, love, community, democracy, the postsecular, and the posthuman.
Through close readings of Nancy, Deleuze, Derrida, Cixous, Clement, Bataille, Balibar, Ranciere, and Badiou, Goh shows how the reject has always been nascent in contemporary French thought. The recent turn to animals and bare life, as well as the rise of the Occupy movement, he argues, presents a special urgency to think the reject today.
Thinking the reject most importantly helps to advance our commitment to affirm others without acculturating their differences. But the reject also offers, Goh proposes, a response finally commensurate with the radical horizon of Nancy’s question of who comes after the subject.
Table of Contents
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- Preface: A Book For Everyone
- pp. ix-xiv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- 1. Introduction
- pp. 1-23
- 4. Prolegomenon to Reject Politics
- pp. 162-217
- 6. Conclusion
- pp. 239-252
- Works Cited
- pp. 335-358
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823262724
Related ISBN(s)
9780823262687
MARC Record
OCLC
889644693
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-29
Language
English
Open Access
No