Uncanny Rest: For Antiphilosophy
Duke University Press, 2022
Cloth: 978-1-4780-1638-0 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1902-2 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-2365-4
Library of Congress Classification RA644.C67M6713 2022
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Cloth: 978-1-4780-1638-0 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1902-2 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-2365-4
Library of Congress Classification RA644.C67M6713 2022
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Uncanny Rest Alberto Moreiras offers a meditation on intellectual life under the suspension of time and conditions of isolation. Focusing on his personal day-to-day experiences of the “shelter-in-place” period during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic, Moreiras engages with the limits and possibilities of critical thought in the realm of the infrapolitical—the conditions of existence that exceed average understandings of politics and philosophy. In each dated entry he works through the process of formulating a life’s worth of thought and writing while attempting to locate the nature of thought once the coordinates of everyday life have changed. Offering nothing less than a phenomenology of thinking, Moreiras shows how thought happens in and out of a life, at a certain crossroads where memories collide, where conversations with interlocutors both living and dead evolve and thinking during a suspended state becomes provisional and uncertain.
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