Life After Literature

Part 1: Institutions of Life.- Chapter 1. Bio-Poetics and the Dynamic Multiplicity of Bios: How Literature Challenges the Politics, Economics and Sciences of Life (Vittoria Borsò).- Chapter 2. Institution and Life as an Institution: Uterus: Mother's Body, Father's Right (Life and Norm) (Petar Bojanic).- Chapter 3. Towards a Poetics of Worldlessness: Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Human Action (Roland Végsö).- PART 2: Anthropology, Performativity, And Language.- Chapter 4. Man and Other Political Animals in Aristotle (Attila Simon).- Chapter 5. Is There an Essential Convergence Between Signification and Animals? On the Truth and Lying of Animal Names in a Nietzschean Sense (Hajnalka Halász).- Chapter 6. Noble Promises: Performativity and Physiology in Nietzsche (Csongor Lörincz).- Chapter 7. Austin's Animals (Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó).- Chapter 8. Self-interpreting Language Animal: Charles Taylor's Anthropology (Csaba Olay).- Part 3: Anthrozoology, Ethics, And Language.- Bio-Aesthetics.- Chapter 9. The Theriomorphic Face (Georg Witte).- Chapter 10. 'Step by step into ever greater decadence': Discourses of Life and Metamorphic Anthropology (Márió Z. Nemes).- Chapter 11. Bio-Aesthetics: The Production of Life in Contemporary Art (Jessica Ullrich).- Part 4: Biopoetics, Zoopoetics, Biophilology.- Chapter 12. Io's Writing: Human and Animal in the Prison-House of Fiction (Ábel Tamás).- Chapter 13. 'Lizard on a sunlit stone': Lörinc Szabó and the Biopoetical Beginnings of Modern Poetry (Ernö Kulcsár Szabó).- Chapter 14. Of Mice and Men: Dissolution and Reconstruction of 'Nature's Larger Scheme': Burns, Mészöly, Kertész (Tamás Lénárt).- Chapter 15. Towards a Literary Entomology: Arthropods and Humans in William H. Gass (Gábor Tamás Molnár).- Chapter 16. Biophilology and the Metabolism of Literature (Susanne Strätling).

Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. Main fields of research: lyric theory, deconstructive criticism, political theory, performativity, Hungarian and German literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has published monographs in Hungarian and co-edited several volumes, among them Transfer and Translation (Budapest 2002) and Signaturen des Geschehens (Bielefeld 2014). His book A gondolkodás háborúi (Budapest: Ráció, 2014) deals with the discourse of violence and power in political philosophy and literature in the first half of the 20th century. His most recent publication Szinonímiák (Budapest: Ráció, 2016) addresses Martin Heidegger's late work, concentrating on issues of materiality, technicity, aesthetics and translation.

Tamás Lénárt attended Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Humanities. He has a master's degree in Hungarian and German Studies. He earned his doctorate (Ph.D.) degree with his thesis on photography and literature at the General Literary Studies and Cultural Studies Literary Program in 2012. He is assistant professor at the Institute of Hungarian Literature and Cultural Studies, ELTE. His main research areas are post-war Hungarian literature, media theory, and visual studies in literature.