{"product_id":"9783032269577","title":"Mike McCormack and the Speculative Metaphysics of Fiction Philosophy, Literature, and the Contemporary Possibilities of Phenomenological Worldhood","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMike McCormack and the Speculative Metaphysics of Fiction\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003ePhilosophy, Literature, and the Contemporary Possibilities of Phenomenological Worldhood\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eIan Tan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eThis book pursues a coherent reading of Mike McCormark’s fiction through the critical lens of a crisis of belonging to the world, responding to Rob Doyle’s assessment that collapse and crisis of “economies, infrastructures, the human body, the very machinery of the stars and galaxies” constitute the very conditions of contemporary worldhood and the structural determinants of conscious thought in McCormack’s fiction. The very first to examine McCormack’s literary output as a whole, this book explores how his challenging, genre-bending fiction employs novelistic strategies of defamiliarization to probe the limits of contemporary belonging-in-the-world, particularized through characters denuded of physical well-being and political participation within a polity which has become uprooted from historical continuity. McCormack’s uncanny landscapes and alienated communities show up the poverty of postmodern selfhood while allowing artistic language to forge new intellectual means, bringing to bear intense novelistic reflections on threshold conditions that ironically hold out the promise of an ambiguous regeneration, innovative ways of belonging to a posthuman future that destabilizes the image of the globalized present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIan Tan\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Associate Editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe Wallace Stevens Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e. He is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWallace Stevens and Martin Heidegger: Poetry as Appropriative Proximity, Wallace Stevens and the Contemporary Irish Novel: Form, Order, and Creative Un-Doing \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eUnderstanding Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e, and editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"white-space: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eWallace Stevens in Theory.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e03 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032269577\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e180\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47722540826764,"sku":"9783032269577","price":89.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032269577.jpg?v=1780619231","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032269577","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}