Uncanny Rest: For Antiphilosophy - Softcover

Moreiras, Alberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478019026 ISBN 13: 9781478019022

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2022

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Alberto Moreiras is Professor of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University and author of The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies, also published by Duke University Press, Against Abstraction: Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist, and Infrapolitics: A Handbook.

Camila Moreiras is a translator, artist, and filmmaker.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478019026
• ISBN 13: 9781478019022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208