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Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century

Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century

Marder, Michael
Tusa, Giovanbattista

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PhilosophyLiterary CriticismGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0262547627
ISBN13: 9780262547628
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Mar 19 2024
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection showcases perspectives from a range of noteworthy thinkers in philosophy, ecology, and cultural studies, as well as artists, from across the globe, including Slavoj Zizek, Timothy Morton, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, and Vandana Shiva, who each describe what they anticipate will be the concepts shaping the trajectory of this century--everything from the world state to the nuclear taboo, automation to Teslaism, plant sexuality to arachnomancy, and ecotrauma to resonances, to name a few.

This century, as the editors explain, has to date grounded itself in the debris of the preceding century, whose revolutions and struggles failed to transform our time: post-colonialism, post-fascism, and post-liberalism have morphed into neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and neofascism, often combined in a previously unimaginable mix. And, just as the political developments at the beginning of the twenty-first century revived and reshuffled those of the preceding epoch, so too have philosophical trends sought to breathe fresh life into the stillborn -isms of the past--realism, vitalism, logicism, materialism, empiricism, criticism--adding the adjective new and sometimes radical before them. To articulate a different future, another language is needed. And, to develop another language, one needs to develop fresh concepts, including the concepts proposed in this collection.

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