Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

by Brian Willems

Book Overview

Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mi ville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett. By questioning it, these writers and philosophers both develop and challenge anthropomorphism. Willems looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way that language is not a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474422691
• ISBN13: 9781474422697
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"