Acknowledgements
Editors' Preface
General Introduction: Opposition of the Faculties, Philosophy's Literary Impossibility
Claire Colebrook
Part I: Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary
Editor's Introduction
David Rudrum
1. The Polymodern Condition: A Report on Cluelessness
David Rudrum
2. Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic - A Case Study into Contemporary Autofiction
Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons and Timotheus Vermeulen
3. The Ends of Metafiction, or, The Romantic Time of Egan's Goon Squad
Josh Toth
4. Virtually Human: Posthumanism and (Post-)postmodern Cyberspace in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story
Nicky Gardiner
Part II: Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism
Editor's Introduction
Ridvan Askin
5. Hélène Cixous's So Close; or, Moving Matters on the Subject
Birgit Mara Kaiser
6. Meillassoux, the Critique of Correlationism, and British Romanticism
Evan Gottlieb
7. Fictional Objects Fictional Subjects
Graham Priest
8. On the Death of Meaning
R. Scott Bakker
Part III: Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms
Editor's Introduction
Ridvan Askin
9. Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour's Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment
Babette B. Tischleder
10. Three Problems of Formalism: An Object-Oriented View
Graham Harman
11. A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation, and Wor(l)ding
Helen Palmer
12. Emerson's Speculative Pragmatism
Ridvan Askin
Part IV: Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy
Editor's Introduction
David Rudrum
13. Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty Reading Orwell - Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature
Ingeborg Löfgren
14. Stanley Cavell and the Politics of Modernism
R.M. Berry
15. Inferentialist Semantics, Intimationist Aesthetics, and Walden
Bryan Vescio
Part V: Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene
Editor's Introduction
Frida Beckman
16. Living to Tell the Story: Characterisation, Narrative Perspective, and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels
Astrid Bracke
17. Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: Ian McEwan's Solar, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Year of the Flood
Robert P. Marzec
18. The Day of the Dark Precursor: Philosophy, Fiction, and Fabulation at the End of the World - A Ficto-Critical Guide
Charlie Blake
19. So to Speak
Adrian Parr
Part VI: Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control
Editor's Introduction
Frida Beckman
20. Literature's Biopolitics
Rey Chow
21. We Have Been Paranoid Too Long to Stop Now
Frida Beckman and Charlie Blake
22. Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US Fiction
David Watson
23. Automatic Art, Automated Trading: Finance, Fiction, and Philosophy
Arne De Boever
Notes on Contributors
Index
