Acknowledgements -- Editors ' Preface -- General Introduction: Opposition of the Faculties, Philosophy's Literary Impossibility -- PART I. Beyond the Postmodern: Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Contemporary -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. The Polymodern Condition: A Report on Cluelessness -- 2. Metamodernism: Period, Structure of Feeling, and Cultural Logic -- A Case Study of Contemporary Autofiction -- 3. The Ends of Metafiction, or, The Romantic Time of Egan's Goon Squad -- 4. Virtually Human: Posthumanism and (Post- )Postmodern Cyberspace in Gary Shteyngart 's Super Sad True Love Story -- PART II. Beyond the Subject: Posthuman and Nonhuman Literary Criticism -- Editor's Introduction

5. Hélène Cixous's So Close -- or, Moving Matters on the Subject -- 6 Meillassoux, the Critique of Correlationism, and British Romanticism -- 7. Fictional Objects Fictional Subjects -- 8. On the Death of Meaning -- PART III Beyond the Object: Reading Literature through Actor-Network Theory, Object-Oriented Philosophy, and the New Materialisms -- Editor's Introduction -- 9. Neither Billiard Ball nor Planet B: Latour's Gaia, Literary Agency, and the Challenge of Writing Geohistory in the Anthropocene Moment -- 10. Three Problems of For malism: An Object-Oriented View -- 11. A Field of Heteronyms and Homonyms: New Materialism, Speculative Fabulation, and Wor(l)ding -- 12. Emerson's Speculative Pragmatism

PART IV. Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Literature through Anglo-American Philosophy -- Editor's Introduction -- 13. Two Examples of Ordinary Language Criticism: Reading Conant Reading Rorty Reading Orwell -- Interpretation at the Intersection of Philosophy and Literature -- 14. Stanley Cavell and the Politics of Modernism -- 15. Inferentialist Semantics, Intimationist Aesthetics, and Walden -- PART V. Embodiment as Ethics: Literature and Life in the Anthropocene -- Editor's Introduction -- 16. Living to Tell the Story: Characterisation, Narrative Perspective, and Ethics in Climate Crisis Flood Novels

17. Contemporary Anthropocene Novels: Ian McEwan's Solar, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods, Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood -- 18. The Day of the Dark Precursor : Philosophy, Fiction, and Fabulation at the End of the World -- A Fictocritical Guide -- 19. So to Speak -- PART VI. Politics after Discipline: Literature, Life, Control -- Editor's Introduction -- 20. Literar y Study's Biopolitics -- 21. We Have Been Paranoid Too Long to Stop Now -- 22. Securing Neoliberalism: The Contingencies of Contemporary US Fiction -- 23. Automatic Art, Automated Trading: Finance, Fiction, and Philosophy -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.