They and their contributors question whether it is intelligent—or even necessary— to orient our collective ethico-political projects from figures of life, and to posit forms of equality and freedom that might emerge if we did not organize being-together under the sign of life. Taken together the essays in Against Life mark an important turn in the ethico-political work of the humanities.
ALASTAIR HUNT is an assistant professor of English at Portland State University.
STEPHANIE YOUNGBLOOD is an assistant professor of English at Tulsa Community College.