Beschreibung:
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).
Roland Végso 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 traces the overlooked history of worldlessness in Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.
Acknowledgements; Orbis non sufficit (An Introduction); 1. The Metaphysics of Worldlessness; 2. The Politics of Worldlessness; 3. The Science of Worldlessness; 4. The Phenomenology of Worldlessness; 5. The Logics of Worldlessness; Contra mundum (A Conclusion); References.