Claire Colebrook is Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• 1. The Meaning of Life; 2. Transcending Life; 3. Sense; 4. The Work of Art that Stands Alone; 5. Conclusion.

"Claire Colebrook has provided a dazzling articulation of a new line of vitalism, a fundamentally passive vitalism, that always puts life out of alignment with itself and that affirms the virtual forces of becoming-other that inhere in life. This is a breathtaking and daring book that challenges us to think about how life is to be rethought and how its contours may help us to rethink philosophy." - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, USA

Claire Colebrook is Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• 1. The Meaning of Life; 2. Transcending Life; 3. Sense; 4. The Work of Art that Stands Alone; 5. Conclusion.

"Claire Colebrook has provided a dazzling articulation of a new line of vitalism, a fundamentally passive vitalism, that always puts life out of alignment with itself and that affirms the virtual forces of becoming-other that inhere in life. This is a breathtaking and daring book that challenges us to think about how life is to be rethought and how its contours may help us to rethink philosophy." - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, USA

Claire Colebrook is Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

• 1. The Meaning of Life; 2. Transcending Life; 3. Sense; 4. The Work of Art that Stands Alone; 5. Conclusion.

"Claire Colebrook has provided a dazzling articulation of a new line of vitalism, a fundamentally passive vitalism, that always puts life out of alignment with itself and that affirms the virtual forces of becoming-other that inhere in life. This is a breathtaking and daring book that challenges us to think about how life is to be rethought and how its contours may help us to rethink philosophy." - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University, USA