The Embarrassment of Being Human

The Embarrassment of Being Human displays how the new materialisms are beset by grave theoretical and practical inconsistencies and self-contradictions.

Auteur

Benjamin Boysen, PhD. and Dr.Phil., is author of The Ethics of Love: An Essay on James Joyce (2013), Nothingness, Negativity, and Nominalism in Shakespeare and Petrarch (2021), and the two Danish books, At være en anden: Essays om intethed, ambivalens og fremmedhed hos Francesco Petrarca og William Shakespeare [Being Another: Essays on Nothingness, Ambivalence, and Strangeness in Francesco Petrarch and William Shakespeare] (2007) and Digtning og filosofi hos Platon [Poetry and Philosophy in Plato] (2020), and he has, with Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen, co-edited a critical anthology Against the New Materialisms (2023). Boysen is currently working on a monograph, The Madness of Thinking, focusing on the relationship between philosophy and literature.