Nonmodern Practices

Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield is Associate Professor of French at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of Georges Bataille, la terreur et les lettres (2009). Claire Chi-ah Lyu is Associate Professor of French at the University of Virginia, USA. She is the author of A Sun within a Sun: The Power and Elegance of Poetry (2006).

Foreword
William Paulson (University of Michigan, USA)
Introduction
Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Part I Early Modern Tradition from a Latourian Relational Perspective
1. “Nonmodern Humanism”: A Relational Reading of Latour and Montaigne
Jan Miernowski (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
2. Practices of Early Modern Orientalism: A Latourian Perspective
Oumelbanine Zhiri (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Part II Reassessing the Literary and Political Modernity with Latour
3. Nonmodern Flaubert
William Paulson (University of Michigan, USA)
4 Latour, Stengers, and Nonmodern Poetry
Claire Chi-ah Lyu (University of Virginia, USA)
5. Kafka's Whipper and Joyce's Pandybat: Reading Scenes of Discipline with Latour
Gabriel Hankins (Clemson University, USA)
6. Michelet's Nonmodernity
Maxime Goergen (University of Sheffield, UK)
Part III Latour's Contributions to the Field of Contemporary Animal Studies
7. Landing in Animal Territories
Vinciane Despret (University of Liège, Belgium)
8. Composing with the “Animal Side”
Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Part IV Issues of Practical Concern Related to Latour's Thinking
9 Latour's Interpretation of Donald Trump
Graham Harman (SCI-Arc, USA, and European Graduate School)
10. The Literary Worlds: Indigenous and Western Network Ethnography
Stephen Muecke (Flinders University, Australia)
Afterword
Rita Felski (University of Virginia, USA, and University of Southern Denmark)
Notes on Contributors
Index