Furnace of This World: Or, 36 Observations about Goodness

by Ed Simon

In the tradition of Roland Barthes' Mythologies and Walter Benjamin's aphoristic Theses on the Philosophy of History, Ed Simon's Furnace of this World is a fragmentary, digressive, impressionistic account of what the radical implications of goodness could possibly be in late capitalism. "Furnace of this World" interrogates the concept of goodness, while arguing that it's always more interesting and radical than its opposite. With neither hubris nor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789041252
• ISBN13: 9781789041255
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"