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Abstract
This article examines several recent theorizations of the concept "world" from within or in proximity to the field of world literature, and argues that these theorizations all suffer from a missed engagement with the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, the most important contemporary thinker of the concept. Focusing on recent books by Emily Apter, Debjani Ganguly, and Pheng Cheah, this article argues that while these theorists all make reference to Nancy, they do so in ways that miss essential aspects of his thinking. The article argues that the theoretical frameworks put forth by these thinkers prevent them from engaging with what Nancy called the "sense of the world." The article concludes with a reflection on the place of joy in the text of Nancy to which all three of these thinkers make reference: The Creation of the World or Globalization.

This essay seeks to contribute to revolutionary understandings of time through an examination of Derrida's 1993 book Sauf le nom, and the poet and mystic Angelus Silesius, whom Derrida reads in this book. The essay counters Martin Hägglund's claim that deconstruction and negative theology are fundamentally opposed to one another by tracing the work of impoverishment in Silesius's poetry. The essay then employs this understanding of impoverishment to deconstruct the concept of desire in Hägglund's 2008 book Radical Atheism, proposing as an alternative to this concept a 'faith of revolution' that is tied to a certain understanding of the future.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Publisher's Note -- Preface -- Prologue: Viral Exception -- 1 An All-Too-Human Virus -- 2 'Communovirus' -- 3 Let Us Be Infants -- 4 Evil and Power -- 5 Freedom -- 6 Neoviralism -- 7 To Free Freedom -- 8 The Useful and the Useless -- 9 Still All Too Human -- Appendix 1: Interview with Nicolas Dutent -- Appendix 2: From the Future to the Time to Come The Revolution of the Virus -- Sources of the Texts.