Claire Colebrook Boeken

Death of the PostHuman undertakes a series of critical encounters with the legacy of what had come to be known as ‘theory,’ and its contemporary supposedly post-human aftermath. There can be no redemptive post-human future in which the myopia and anthropocentrism of the species finds an exit and manages to emerge with ecology and life. At the same time, what has come to be known as the human - despite its normative intensity - can provide neither foundation nor critical lever in the Anthropocene epoch. Death of the PostHuman argues for a twenty-first century deconstruction of ecological and seemingly post-human futures.

Offers a thorough understanding of the concept's history and uses; developing from, and occasionally contesting, already established discussions of theory. The author takes up figures in post-Cartesian philosophy on the subject of irony - Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, as well as thinkers in the Anglo- Saxon tradition - Rorty, Searle, and de Man.

Focusing on the ideas of a significant French philosopher, this book offers an approachable overview of his complex theories and contributions. It aims to demystify his challenging concepts, making them accessible to readers unfamiliar with his work. Through clear explanations, it invites exploration of his influence on contemporary thought and encourages deeper engagement with his philosophical ideas.

Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derrida's work, and offers the reader a clear, systematic and fresh examination of the astounding breadth of Derrida's philosophy.

Why think? Not, according to Gilles Deleuze, in order to be clever, but because thinking transforms life. Why read literature? Not for pure entertainment, Deleuze tells us, but because literature can recreate the boundaries of life. With his emphasis on creation, the future and the enhancement of life, along with his crusade against 'common sense', Deleuze offers some of the most liberating, exhilarating ideas in twentieth-century thought. This book offers a way in to Deleuzean thought through such topics as: * 'becoming' * time and the flow of life * the ethics of thinking * 'major' and 'minor' literature * difference and repetition * desire, the image and ideology. Written with literature students in mind, this is the ideal guide for students wishing to think differently about life and literature and in this way to create their own new readings of literary texts.

An overview of the history and structure of irony, this guide traces its use through history, from Greek times to the Romantic period and on to the postmodern era. It looks closely at the work of Socrates and the more contemporary theorists; explores the philosophical, literary and political dimensions; and applies theories to literary texts. schovat popis

Sex After Life aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and critical theories. Arguing against a notion of the queer as counter-normative, Sex After Life appeals to the concept of life as a philosophical problem. Life is neither a material ground nor a generative principle, but can nevertheless offer itself for new forms of problem formation that exceed the all too human logics of survival.

Until recently, continental philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality.

Claire Colebrook examines how postapocalyptic cinema uses images from the past and present to depict what it means to preserve the world-and who is left out of the narrative of rebuilding society.