| Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism Contributor(s): Neyrat, Frédéric (Author), Hunter, Walt (Translator), Turner, Lindsay (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0823277569 ISBN-13: 9780823277568 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $26.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Post-structuralism - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 190.905 |
| LCCN: 2017003975 |
| Series: Lit Z |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.40 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Atopias is a manifesto for a radical existentialism that restores the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside "atopia": not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world, but atopia, the internal outside that is at the core of every being. Atopia is neither an object that an object-oriented ontology might formalize, nor the matter that new materialisms might identify. Atopia is what constitutes the eccentric existence of every being. Etymologically, to exist means "to be outside" and Atopias argues that every entity is outside, thrown in the world without ontological anchor. In this regard, a radicalized existentialism no longer privileges human beings, as Sartre and Heidegger did, but considers existence a universal condition of every being. Now, when our denial of any outside is at its most damaging, is the moment for such a radical existentialism. Only an atopian philosophy-a bizarre, extravagant, heretic philosophy-can rechannel our fear of the outside. Breaking the immanence in which we are trapped, Atopias opens new ways to consider human and animal subjectivity, language, politics, and metaphysics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turner, Lindsay: - Lindsay Turner is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.Shaviro, Steven: - Steven Shaviro is DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University.Neyrat, Frederic: - Frederic Neyrat is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is editor of Alienocene, an online journal that charts the environmental humanities and contemporary theory. His first book in English (following thirteen in French) is Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism (Fordham, 2018).Hunter, Walt: - Walt Hunter is Associate Professor of World Literature at Clemson University. He is co-translator of Frédéric Neyrat's Atopias: Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism. |