John Hunt Publishing - Zero Books - announces the new title

Reading the Way of Things
Towards a New Technology of Making Sense

Daniel Coffeen

A Deleuzian guide to reading the world, Reading the Way of Things is an exploration of the ideas of McLuhan, Deleuze, Guattari, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Burroughs, and more. It is a book that aims at getting the reader past teleological interpretations and questions, letting the reader in on new ways of doing criticism as well as new ways of going, being, and thinking.

Author Bio
Daniel Coffeen has a PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley where he was a lecturer for many years, in addition to teaching graduate seminars in critical theory at the San Francisco Art Institute. He's a frequent contributor to philosophy podcasts and a prolific blogger.
Online: Facebook, Author Website, Blog, Twitter

Promotional Plans
Author blog (5,000-10,000 page views/month), Facebook, Twitter. Thought Catalog.

USP
Complex and esoteric ideas made accessible and applicable. A wide range of examples from everyday life, art, film, food, and philosophy.

Competing Books
How to Read and Why (9780684859071), by Harold Bloom
Scribner, 201

Categories
LITERARY CRITICISM(LIT006000) -> Semiotics & Theory(LIT006000)
PHILOSOPHY(PHI000000) -> General(PHI000000)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES(LAN015000) -> Rhetoric(LAN015000)

 

Publication Date
August 2016

Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78535-414-4
$19.95  |  £11.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
160PP

e-book
ISBN: 978-1-78535-415-1
$9.99  |  £6.99

Library of Congress
2015960677

Distributed to the trade by National Book Network in US; by Orca Marston in UK
Publisher contact: [email protected]
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