Description:
Speculation: Politics, Ideology, Event develops Hegel's radical perspective of speculative thought as a way of reclaiming and revitalizing the sense of the future and its possibilities.
Review Quotes:
"Just as Hegel distinguishes endless infinity from true infinity, Glyn Daly distinguishes pragmatic speculation under the aegis of finance capitalism from philosophical speculation oriented toward the truth of events. In this precise sense, his brilliant new book isn't highly speculative; it's a speculative high." --Andrew Cutrofello, author of All for Nothing: Hamlet's Negativity
"While Daly clearly aims to make a scholarly case for speculative reason and its value as a critical approach, his development of examples from popular culture throughout the book (including The Hunger Games, Star Wars, Maze Runner, and Borat, to name but a few) make his arguments more accessible to a broad audience than would be expected in a monograph of this kind. Highly recommended." --Choice
"Daly's book stuns with its complexity, but its elegance lies in the simplicity of the speculative. . . . Dazzling." --Sergio Valverde, Marx Philosophy Review of Books