Subject of the Event: Reagency in the American Novel After 2000

by Sebastian Huber

What does falling in love have in common with the fall of the Berlin Wall? Or the fall of the Twin Towers?

In the light of postmodernism's programmatic critique of a humanist notion of the subject and an emphatic understanding of events, Subject of the Event shows that selected American novels after 2000 offer an alternative to the "death of the subject."

As the first book to comprehensively engage with Alain Badiou's writings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501338080
• ISBN13: 9781501338083
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"