LEADER 03244nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910459053303321 005 20210518011012.0 010 $a1-282-90205-9 010 $a9786612902055 010 $a0-226-79373-7 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226793733 035 $a(CKB)2670000000060633 035 $a(EBL)616055 035 $a(OCoLC)688224066 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000411422 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12164342 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411422 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10356835 035 $a(PQKB)10649893 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616055 035 $a(DE-B1597)523345 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226793733 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL616055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10431293 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL290205 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000060633 100 $a20100222d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter life$b[electronic resource] /$fEugene Thacker 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-79372-9 311 0 $a0-226-79371-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Life and the Living (On Aristotelian Biohorror) --$t2. Superlative Life --$t3. Univocal Creatures --$t4. Dark Pantheism --$t5. Logic and Life (On Kantian Teratology) --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aLife is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as something at once scientific and mystical, in the return of vitalisms of all types, and in the pervasive politicization of life. In short, life seems everywhere at stake and yet is nowhere the same. In After Life, Eugene Thacker clears the ground for a new philosophy of life by recovering the twists and turns in its philosophical history. Beginning with Aristotle's originary formulation of a philosophy of life, Thacker examines the influence of Aristotle's ideas in medieval and early modern thought, leading him to the work of Immanuel Kant, who notes the inherently contradictory nature of "life in itself." Along the way, Thacker shows how early modern philosophy's engagement with the problem of life affects thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, and Alain Badiou, as well as contemporary developments in the "speculative turn" in philosophy. At a time when life is categorized, measured, and exploited in a variety of ways, After Life invites us to delve deeper into the contours and contradictions of the age-old question, "what is life?" 606 $aOntology 606 $aLife 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aOntology. 615 0$aLife. 676 $a113/.8 700 $aThacker$b Eugene$0523150 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459053303321 996 $aAfter life$92260007 997 $aUNINA