Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Editors ’ Preface ix
5. General Introduction: Opposition of the Faculties, Philosophy’s Literary Impossibility 1
6. PART I Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary
7. Editor’s Introduction 17
8. 1 The Polymodern Condition: A Report on Cluelessness 22
9. 2 Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic – A Case Study of Contemporary Autofiction 41
10. 3 The Ends of Metafiction, or, The Romantic Time of Egan’s Goon Squad 55
11. 4 Virtually Human: Posthumanism and (Post-)Postmodern Cyberspace in Gary Shteyngart ’s Super Sad True Love Story 74
12. PART II Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism
13. Editor’s Introduction 97
14. 5 Hélène Cixous’s So Close; or, Moving Matters on the Subject 102
15. 6 Meillassoux, the Critique of Correlationism, and British Romanticism 122
16. 7 Fictional Objects Fictional Subjects 138
17. 8 On the Death of Meaning 152
18. PART III Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms
19. Editor’s Introduction 173
20. 9 Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour’s Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment 179
21. 10 Three Problems of Formalism: An Object-Oriented View 198
22. 11 A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation, and Wor(l)ding 215
23. 12 Emerson’s Speculative Pragmatism 234
24. PART IV Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy
25. Editor’s Introduction 253
26. 13 Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty Reading Orwell – Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature 258
27. 14 Stanley Cavell and the Politics of Modernism 279
28. 15 Inferentialist Semantics, Intimationist Aesthetics, and Walde 297
29. PART V Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene
30. Editor’s Introduction 315
31. 16 Living to Tell the Story: Characterisation, Narrative Perspective, and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels 321
32. 17 Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: Ian McEwan’s Solar, Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods, Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood 338
33. 18 The Day of the Dark Precursor : Philosophy, Fiction, and Fabulation at the End of the World – A Fictocritical Guide 361
34. 19 So to Speak 382
35. PART VI Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control
36. Editor’s Introduction 389
37. 20 Literary Study’s Biopolitics 394
38. 21 We Have Been Paranoid Too Long to Stop Now 410
39. 22 Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US Fiction 429
40. 23 Automatic Art , Automated Trading: Finance, Fiction, and Philosophy 450
41. Notes on Contributors 466
42. Index 471