An 'Inhumanist' School

Clark, Timothy

Abstract

This review article offers an introductory overview of a distinctive broadly ‘deconstructive’ body of work which deserves to be more widely known. Two books in particular, by Claire Colebrook, Tom Cohen and J. Hillis Miller, are an especial focus, with their uncompromising readings of many of the assumptions and evasions in the environmental humanities. These are Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin (London, Routledge, 2012), and Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (Open Humanities Press, 2016).

Citation

Clark, T. (2023). An 'Inhumanist' School. Oxford Literary Review, 45(1), 142-156. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2023.0408

• Journal Article Type: Review
• Acceptance Date: Jan 1, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jun 30, 2023
• Publication Date: Jun 30, 2023
• Deposit Date: Jun 14, 2024
• Journal: Oxford Literary Review
• Print ISSN: 0305-1498
• Electronic ISSN: 1757-1634
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 142-156
• Item Discussed: Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller, Theory and the Disappearing Future: On de Man, On Benjamin (London, Routledge, 2012). Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook and J. Hillis Miller, Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols, (Open Humanities Press, 2016).
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2023.0408
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2483993
• Publisher URL: https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/olr/45/1