Description

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Dubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics - toward a break from politics, the political and policies. He calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.

About the Author

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Laurent Dubreuil is Professor of Comparative Literature, Romance Studies and Cognitive Science at Cornell University. He is the author of six books of philosophy and literary theory, including The Intellective Space (2015) and Empire of Language (2013). Since 2011, he has served as the Editor of diacritics. Cory Browning is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Oregon. He completed his PhD at Cornell University under the direction of Laurent Dubreuil. He has translated articles by Etienne Balibar and Claire Fontaine for diacritics and two chapters in the forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism.