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Denounces contemporary politics through an engagement with political theory, the arts and what it is to live well
Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. He calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.
The first chapter situates the refusal of politics in relation to different contemporary theoretical attempts to renew politics, and makes the case for a greater rupture. The second moment takes up what is liveable in life by way of apolitical experience, in contrast to appropriations of the collective, including a discussion of the arts. Finally, Laurent Dubreuil draws up an incomplete inventory of means, forms of existence - often frail and fleeting - that make an exit toward atopia.
Laurent Dubreuil is Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Studies and Cognitive Science at Cornell University. He is the author of six books of philosophy and literary theory, including The Intellective Space (2015) and Empire of Language (2013). Since 2011, he has served as the Editor of diacritics.
Cory Browning is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Oregon. He completed his PhD at Cornell University under the direction of Laurent Dubreuil. He has translated articles by Etienne Balibar and Claire Fontaine for diacritics and two chapters in the forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism.
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