Envisioning the Good Life
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-3931-9 (ISBN)
Envisioning the Good Life is a call to re-imagine our lives beyond the limits of recent understandings. While contemporary thinkers of life have promoted a vision of life as excess to escape the crises that beset the present, these vitalist visions leave life detached from reality and fragmented. Contemporary vitalism imagines life as excessive, savage life, as damaged life that flees power, and as redeemed life that forms a new dispersed community. While exploring these visions of life, this book argues for an integrated understanding of the good life. Reading against the limits of the current imaginary, Envisioning the Good Life suggests that our lives are not defined by the limits of illness, death, and finitude. This book urges us to rediscover the vision of the good life in the collective and to grasp our own powers to transform our lives and the world.
Benjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Chichester. His books include Crisis and Criticism: Essays, 2009–2021 (Brill, 2024), The Matter of Language: Abstraction and Poetry (Seagull, 2023), Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (Zero, 2014), and The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2010).
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Extracting Life
Chapter I. Savage Life: Foucault, Deleuze and Ontological Anarchy
1. Ontologies of Annihilation
2. Crowned Anarchy
3. Blows Against the Empire
4. The Ethics of Excess
Chapter II. Damaged Life: Negri, Laruelle, Adorno and the Victim
1. Job’s Great Complaint
2. Black Celebration
3. The Damage Done
4. Present Pessimism
Chapter III. Redeemed Life: Henry, Laruelle, Žižek and the Figure of Christ
1. Personal Jesus
2. Christ Heretic
3. Christ Dialectical
4. Incarnating Community
Chapter IV. Global Life: Schmitt, Blanchot and the Abstraction of Community
1. Enemy Life
2. Partisan Life
3. The Absolute Enemy
4. A Communism of Abstraction
5. Combined and Uneven Life
Conclusion: Beyond Finitude
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.04.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | no illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-3931-0 / 1399539310 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-3931-9 / 9781399539319 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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