Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- We Ourselves -- Book I: Transparencies -- The first person plural -- Everyone-we-I -- Three objections -- Every we is a system of divisions -- Conflicts of division -- The intersection model -- The transparency model -- The contour -- The overlap -- Transparency and opacity -- Re-covering -- The bottom -- Book II: Constraints -- 1. The Ground of We -- 2. Dynamic -- 3. Domination -- 4. The End of We -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Throughout the history of human societies, the question of 'we' has always entailed the question of 'us and them'. Tristan Garcia's looks at the history of how people have imagined themselves in their societies. All in all, this work is a rigorous engagement with the history of humanity's attempts at being collectively
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