Literature, Philosophy, Political Theory

This interdisciplinary collection examines literature, philosophy, and political theory through twenty-five essays exploring fundamental questions about being, existence, and political identity. The work engages with major thinkers including Nietzsche, Blanchot, and Lenin while analyzing literary works by Marguerite Duras. Essays address contemporary issues including wage labour, violence, and revolutionary theory through philosophical and critical frameworks and also includes:

• Interdisciplinary collection examining literature, philosophy, and political theory through contemporary critical frameworks
• Comprehensive analysis of key philosophical concepts including being, dialogicality, and existence
• Critical engagement with major thinkers including Nietzsche, Blanchot, and Lenin
• Exploration of fundamental questions about human nature, political identity, and revolutionary theory
• Scholarly examination of literary works by Marguerite Duras and their philosophical implications

The collection contributes to poststructuralist thought and its applications to political theory, making it an important reading for scholars in philosophy, literary theory, political science, and critical theory interested in interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary theoretical questions.
This title has been co-published with Aakar Books. T&Fdoes not sell or distribute the print edition in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).

Preface
PART I

1. Dialogicality and Being: A Fragment
2. Faces: Some Notes through Marguerite Duras
3. The Death(Waiting) of Monsieur Andesmas
4. Sleep
5. 'Weeping': For Udayan Vajpeyi
6. Prayer
7. She, Leaving
8. You Left. And Did Not Return
9. Ruptured (in) Writing

PART II

1. Gift, Passivity, Neuter
2. Useless Thought: Notes on Friedrich Nietzsche
3. To be Fortunate
4. To be Regardful of the Earth
5. Self and Time
6. Death and the Self

PART III

1. Simulating: The Heart Breaking

PART IV

1. Beginning an Essay
2. Ontology of Wage Labour
3. Remembering a Century: Mourning a Lack and a Loss of Power
4. Roots of Violence: Jîva, Life and Other Things
5. Thoughts on the Nature of Some Visual Objects
6. Beings and Existence, or, Are Humans 'Beings'?
7. Man, Political Man, Political Theory
8. Maurice Blanchot and Poststructuralism
9. Restoring Revolutionary Theory: Towards an Understanding of Lenin's The State and Revolution