An assessment of postnihilism's probabilities through reaffirmation of nihilism's and prenihilism's definitions, On the Theory of Unnatural Unnaturalness Becoming Natural Unnaturalness reverberates the radical thought that anti-foundationalism is the most tangible proof of the existence of a beyond. Certainly, a disappointed idealism resulting in destructiveness is an ongoing happening, present since the founding of civilization. Never have two penultimate demonstrations of it been placed side by side like nihilism and its variation, anti-foundationalism. Both use a general state of unhappiness for the purposes of indoctrination-only anti-foundationalism is slightly quieter, bringing a new level of subtlety. Friedrich Nietzsche always found beauty in nihilism, a radical position itself. Never has it crossed the minds of those who abhor his doctrines that it is an opinion that supports none of the fascist ends-that what he really meant to demonstrate was that only prenihilism can be a root of nihilism, that nihilism can never be a creator of itself. The purpose of author Mihajlo Bugarinovic's On the Theory of Unnatural Unnaturalness Becoming Natural Unnaturalness is to clear the name of one the greatest thinkers of our time, to put his importance in a new context.

Wolpert draws on the entire history of science, from Thales of Miletus to Watson and Crick, from the study of eugenics to the discovery of the double helix. The result is a scientist's view of the culture of science, authoritative, informed, and mercifully accessible to those who find cohabiting with this culture a puzzling experience.

With the basic premise as the presentation of the idea of an aesthetic ideal as a metaphor for the "metaphysical absurdism," the fact that if we were to say that there are no true or untrue objects the object of the discussion to be found within the idea of the absurd crumbles, author Mihajlo Bugarinovic has (though it may not seem so) written a book that belongs to the metaphysics branch of philosophy in a fashion that may very well be compared to the Copernican revolution that Immanuel Kant identified himself with with "Critique of Pure Reason." Its style is like a cross between Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Hegel. This is Mihajlo Bugarinovic's third book. He lives in Vancouver.

This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular. Unsatisfied with the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, it calls for a transnational and comparative turn in unnatural narrative theory, the purpose of which is to draw readers’ attention to those periphery and marginalized narratives produced in places other than England and America. It places equal weight on theoretical exploration and critical practice. The book, in addition to offering a detailed account of current scholarship of unnatural narratology, examines its core issues and critical debates as well as outlining a set of directions for its future development. To present a counterpart of Western unnatural narrative studies, this book specifically takes a close look at the experimental narratives in China and Iraq either synchronically or diachronically. In doing so, it aims, on the one hand, to show how the unnatural narratives are written and to be explained differently from those Western unnatural narrative works, and on the other hand, to use the particular cases to challenge the existing narratological framework so as to further enrich and supplement it. The book will be useful and inspiring to those scholars working in such broad fields as narrative theory, literary criticism, cultural studies, semiotics, media studies, and comparative literature and world literature studies.

Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Arranged by topic rather than chronology, in order to highlight the relationships between earlier and most recent theoretical developments, the book groups its chapters into seven convenient sections: I. Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry; II. The Task of Reading; III. Literary Locations and Cultural Studies; IV. The Politics of Literature; V. Identities; VI. Bodies and Their Minds; and VII. Scientific Inflections. Allotting proper space to all areas of theory most relevant today, this comprehensive volume features three dozen masterfully written chapters covering such subjects as: Anglo-American New Criticism; Chicago Formalism; Russian Formalism; Derrida and Deconstruction; Empathy/Affect Studies; Foucault and Poststructuralism; Marx and Marxist Literary Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Ethnic Studies; Gender Theory; Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism; Cognitive Literary Theory; Evolutionary Literary Theory; Cybernetics and Posthumanism; and much more. Features 36 essays by noted scholars in the field Fills a growing need for companion books that can guide readers through the thicket of ideas, systems, and terminologies Presents important contemporary literary theory while examining those of the past The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Literary Theory will be welcomed by college and university students seeking an accessible and authoritative guide to the complex and often intimidating modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century.

Ectogenesis, the gestation of the foetus outside of the human body, will not for much longer be in the realm of science fiction; a number of projects attempting to develop ectogenetic technology are currently under way. This book examines the ethical implications of the development of ectogenesis. Examining the implications for abortion ethics in particular, this book also deals with the ethical objections to developing such a technology and the uses to which it may be put, such as creating embryos to supply donor organs for transplantation. The development of the artificial uterus may well be similar to cloning: a sudden technological advance with dramatic ethical implications, thrust suddenly into the public eye.