The Reject

This book proposes a theory of the reject a more adequate figure than the subject for thinking friendship love community democracy the postsecular and the posthuman.Through close readings of Nancy Deleuze Derrida Cixous Clement Bataille Balibar Ranciere and Badiou Goh shows how the reject has always been nascent in contemporary French thought. The recent turn to animals and bare life as well as the rise of the Occupy movement he argues presents a special urgency to think the reject today.Thinking the reject most importantly helps to advance our commitment to affirm others without acculturating their differences. But the reject also offers Goh proposes a response finally commensurate with the radical horizon of Nancy’s question of who comes after the subject.