Overview
Monika Kaup pairs post-apocalyptic novels by Margaret Atwood, José Saramago, Octavia Butler and Cormac McCarthy with new realist theories from Bruno Latour, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Markus Gabriel, Jean-Luc Marion and Alphonso Lingis. She shows that, just as new realist theory can illuminate post-apocalyptic literature, post-apocalyptic literature can illuminate new theories of the real. Kaup showcases a context-based concept of the real. She argues that new realisms of complex and embedded wholes, actor-networks and ecologies - not the old realisms of isolated parts and things - represent the most promising escape from the impasses of constructivism and positivism.
- | Author: Monika Kaup
- | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- | Publication Date: May 21, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 352 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 1474483097
- | ISBN-13: 9781474483094
