Think again: an introduction.
1. Death again: reimagining the end.
The Humanities, the demography of aging, and the philosophy of birth
The test and the copy of the Mad Men
2. Revisiting torture and torment. Spinoza's Post-Human Critique of Mimesis
Nietzsche, Post-Humanism and back to the Biopolitical Economics of Mad Men
3. Revisiting clones: change and the politics of life. Cloning and art as mere copy of Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
The market verifies the truth of life: Foucault's Biopolitics of Free Market Liberalism
The Nazi Genocide, Hannah Arendt and the Philosophy of Birth
4. Rethinking suffering: self and substance. Literature's mediation between substantive and subjective suffering, or the Critique of Zizek: Can We Do Justice to Suffering Without a Notion of Substance?
Aging, the changing demography, and literature's transformation of consciousness
Literature's Critique of Fiction: Ishiguro's Remains of the Day
5. The birth of literature. From the market economy of the Romantic genius to art's disruption of the status quo
Walter Benjamin's alternative to Martin Heidegger's and Paul de Man's approach to literature and its implications for cultural studies (Slavoj Zizek)
Excursus: Agamben, Doctorow, and the Biopolitics of Representation
Zizek, de Man, and Spinoza's Cartesian break with Descartes
Hölderlin, Benjamin, and the poetry of new beginnings
Celan, the void and the aftermath of the Nazi Genocide
6. The birth of politics out of literature. Benjamin's Poetics of Kantian Transcendental Philosophy
Art's interconnected universe
Heidegger or poetry as a function of history/politics and art as basis for politics in Benjamin
7. Rethinking birth and aging: a conclusion. The stereotype of the Jew as representation of aging and decay
Philip Roth or revisiting Plato and Aristotle on Mimesis.
