Description: "An influential thinker on the concept of singularity and its implications on politics, theology, economics, psychoanalysis, and literature"--
Review Quotes:
"One of the important thinkers of our time, Samuel Weber has published a magnum opus that is a must-read for anyone interested in poetics and theory today. Drawing on Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, Adorno, Benjamin, Derrida, and J-L Nancy, he analyzes singularization from ontology to politics, foregrounding questions central to the comparative humanities. Chapter by exhilarating chapter, this book models the abilities of critical theory to address myriad issues in singular ways."--Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics: On Obstruction, Impasse, and the Impolitic
"There is a great pleasure in reading this book as it progresses because, even as it lays out the overarching theory of singularity, it also exemplifies, in its very form, the subject matter at hand. The various chapters in this book engage with singularity in innumerable ways and from any number of angles. Here, as is entirely appropriate, each entry remains wholly singular even as it is linked and connected to other moments and phenomena described. In this way we are given a philosophical, literary, and material demonstration of singularity, an issue that, as Samuel Weber makes clear, is both fundamental and critical for our, as well as any other, time."--James Martel, San Francisco State University