Envisioning the Good Life
The Limits of Contemporary Vitalism
$214.12
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
7 July 2025
Summary
Envisioning the Good Life is a call to re-imagine our lives beyond the limits of recent understandings. While contemporary thinkers of life have promoted a vision of life as excess to escape the crises that beset the present, these vitalist visions leave life detached from reality and fragmented. Contemporary vitalism imagines life as excessive, savage life, as damaged life that flees power, and as redeemed life that forms a new dispersed community. While exploring these visions of l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399539319 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399539310 |
| Author: | Benjamin Noys |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 7 July 2025 |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
In this book, Benjamin Noys is a kind of philosophical surgeon, dissecting our social needs and desires. We are obsessed with “Life” as a power and source of values, but we do not know concretely how to live. Noys probes this dilemma, and offers us glimpses of a way out. – Steven Shaviro, Wayne State University
About The Author
Benjamin Noys
Benjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Chichester.
His books include:
- Crisis and Criticism: Essays, 2009–2021 (Brill, 2024)
- The Matter of Language: Abstraction and Poetry (Seagull, 2023)
- Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (Zero, 2014)
- The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
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