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Celebricities

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A phenomenological account of the forms of life characteristic of late capitalism--including television, celebrity culture, and personal electronics--culminating in an ontology of the gadget-commod...
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  • 01 July 2016
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What becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty-first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go “back to the things themselves” when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary and experimental theoretical interventions, Anthony Curtis Adler rethinks Marxist materialism and the Heideggerian project in terms of the singular experiences of late capitalism. In doing so, he reveals how the disarticulation of life via the commodity fetish demands at once a new notion of phenomenological method and an ontology oriented toward the radical contingency of being itself as transcendental ground.
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Price: $110.00
Pages: 264
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Imprint: Modern Language Initiative
Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
Publication Date: 01 July 2016
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780823270798
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
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Anthony Curtis Adler is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College in South Korea.