Publication

2016 - Fordham University Press

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780823270798
  • ISBN-100823270793
  • Library of Congress Control Number2015045242
  • OCLC Control Number933273953
  • Better World Books9780823270798
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCB825.A3155 2016
  • LCCB825 .A3155 2016

Description

"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."--Backcover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Celebricities: Media Culture and the Phenomenology of Gadget Commodity LifeFordham University Press2016-01-01

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