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Mike McCormack and the Speculative Metaphysics of Fiction: Philosophy, Literature, and the Contemporary Possibilities of Phenomenological Worldhood

Mike McCormack and the Speculative Metaphysics of Fiction: Philosophy, Literature, and the Contemporary Possibilities of Phenomenological Worldhood

Tan, Ian

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 28, 2026

ISBN10: 3032269571
ISBN13: 9783032269577
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 28 2026
Pages: 140
Language: English

This book pursues a coherent reading of Mike McCormark's fiction through the critical lens of a crisis of belonging to the world, responding to Rob Doyle's assessment that collapse and crisis of economies, infrastructures, the human body, the very machinery of the stars and galaxies constitute the very conditions of contemporary worldhood and the structural determinants of conscious thought in McCormack's fiction. The very first to examine McCormack's literary output as a whole, this book explores how his challenging, genre-bending fiction employs novelistic strategies of defamiliarization to probe the limits of contemporary belonging-in-the-world, particularized through characters denuded of physical well-being and political participation within a polity which has become uprooted from historical continuity. McCormack's uncanny landscapes and alienated communities show up the poverty of postmodern selfhood while allowing artistic language to forge new intellectual means, bringing to bear intense novelistic reflections on threshold conditions that ironically hold out the promise of an ambiguous regeneration, innovative ways of belonging to a posthuman future that destabilizes the image of the globalized present.

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