商品簡介
Through the figure of contamination as an alternative to dialectics, literature interacts with scientific discoveries.
This monograph introduces the figure of contamination as an alternative to dialectics: whereas dialectics separates two entities and traverses from one to the other (finally negating negation), contamination allows for the simultaneous interdependence of what has previously been conceived as separate or opposed. Whereas dialectics unfolds through the positing of oppositions, contamination operates on the biological model of symbiosis.
The figure of contamination as developed in this book offers a new perspective of negativity which questions the current influence of Hegelian dialectics in contemporary theory and philosophy (i.e. Robert Pippin, Slavoj Zizek, Catherine Malabou). The book also offers an advanced critical introduction to the critique of dialectics to which it at the same time contributes as an original piece of research.
作者簡介
Michael Mack is Reader (Associate Professor and tenured Research Fellow) in English Studies and Medical Humanities at Durham University. He is the author of Anthropology as Memory: Elias Canetti and Franz Baermann Steiner's Responses to the Shoah (Niemeyer, 2001); German Idealism and the Jew. The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses (University of Chicago Press, 2003), Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: the hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud (Continuum, 2010), How Literature Changes the Way we Think, (Continuum, 2012) and Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis: Challenging our Infatuation with Numbers (Bloomsbury, 2014).
