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This is a book whose intelligence and insight the academy desperately needs. It displays a conceptual beauty in bringing the contemporary `crisis' in Romantic studies into contact with the question of `lastness'-a question that is, in many ways, always already the crisis of Romanticism. Approaching the `last' as what always comes after itself, Khalip thinks lastness as the persistence, in a minor, non-apocalyptic key, of what decompletes, derealizes, or dephenomenalizes the `world.' Pursuing that thought through bravura readings, Khalip affords his readers the thrill of intellectual discovery while challenging them to ask if such discoveries themselves are the effect of our determination by lastness. -- Lee Edelman * Tufts University *

This is a book whose intelligence and insight the academy desperately needs. It displays a conceptual beauty in bringing the contemporary `crisis' in Romantic studies into contact with the question of `lastness'-a question that is, in many ways, always already the crisis of Romanticism. Approaching the `last' as what always comes after itself, Khalip thinks lastness as the persistence, in a minor, non-apocalyptic key, of what decompletes, derealizes, or dephenomenalizes the `world.' Pursuing that thought through bravura readings, Khalip affords his readers the thrill of intellectual discovery while challenging them to ask if such discoveries themselves are the effect of our determination by lastness. -- Lee Edelmen * Tufts University *

This is a book whose intelligence and insight the academy desperately needs. It displays a conceptual beauty in bringing the contemporary 'crisis' in Romantic studies into contact with the question of 'lastness'-a question that is, in many ways, always already the crisis of Romanticism. Approaching the 'last' as what always comes after itself, Khalip thinks lastness as the persistence, in a minor, non-apocalyptic key, of what decompletes, derealizes, or dephenomenalizes the 'world.' Pursuing that thought through bravura readings, Khalip affords his readers the thrill of intellectual discovery while challenging them to ask if such discoveries themselves are the effect of our determination by lastness. -- Lee Edelman * Tufts University *

"A remarkable book, as unsparingly rigorous as it is elegantly written. How to think the end without ending? In Jacques Khalip's capable hands, Romantic lastness is the disaster in whose incessant wake we struggle still.---David L. Clark, McMaster University This is a book whose intelligence and insight the academy desperately needs. It displays a conceptual beauty in bringing the contemporary 'crisis' in Romantic studies into contact with the question of 'lastness'--a question that is, in many ways, always already the crisis of Romanticism. Approaching the 'last' as what always comes after itself, Khalip thinks lastness as the persistence, in a minor, non-apocalyptic key, of what decompletes, derealizes, or dephenomenalizes the 'world.' Pursuing that thought through bravura readings, Khalip affords his readers the thrill of intellectual discovery while challenging them to ask if such discoveries themselves are the effect of our determination by lastness.---Lee Edelman, Tufts University In Last Things, Jacques Khalip argues for reading Romanticism's lastness through and by way of philosophical and cultural critique in the contemporary moment. The lastness issue across this remarkable book includes things themselves, a sense of ends and death that is unremarked, gone past, and already subsumed, a has-been that challenges claims about what might be and what remains.-- ""Studies in Romanticism"""

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Jacques Khalip is Associate Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession, and co-editor of Releasing The Image: From Literature to New Media and Constellations of a Contemporary Romanticism.

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