edited by Alastair Hunt and Stephanie Youngblood
contributions by Matthias Rudolf, Donna V. Jones, Ranjana Khanna, Sarah Ensro, Claire Colebrook, Jami Weinstein, Penelope Deutscher, Robert McKay and Isabel A. Moore
afterword by Lee Edelman
Northwestern University Press, 2015
Paper: 978-0-8101-3212-2 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-3213-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-3214-6
Library of Congress Classification PN56.L52A34 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.9335

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ABOUT THIS BOOK


The contributors to Against Life think critically about the turn to life in theory and culture and especially about its redemptive tendencies. Editors Alastair Hunt and Stephanie Youngblood shape their collection to provocatively challenge an assumption rife in the humanities, mainly that the idea of redeeming life might hinder important ethical conversations.


They and their contributors question whether it is intelligent—or even necessary— to orient our collective ethico-political projects from figures of life, and to posit forms of equality and freedom that might emerge if we did not organize being-together under the sign of life. Taken together the essays in Against Life mark an important turn in the ethico-political work of the humanities.