Against Life
Mar 2016 · Northwestern University Press
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264
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About this ebook
The contributors to Against Life think critically about the turn to life in theory and culture and especially about its redemptive tendencies. Editors Alastair Hunt and Stephanie Youngblood shape their collection to provocatively challenge an assumption rife in the humanities, mainly that the idea of redeeming life might hinder important ethical conversations.
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.
The contributors to Against Life think critically about the turn to life in theory and culture and especially about its redemptive tendencies. Editors Alastair Hunt and Stephanie Youngblood shape their collection to provocatively challenge an assumption rife in the humanities, mainly that the ide...
About the author
ALASTAIR HUNT is an assistant professor of English at Portland State University.
STEPHANIE YOUNGBLOOD is an assistant professor of English at Tulsa Community College.
ALASTAIR HUNT is an assistant professor of English at Portland State University.
STEPHANIE YOUNGBLOOD is an assistant professor of English at Tulsa Community College.
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