{"product_id":"on-persistence-paperback","title":"On Persistence - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Comay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold meditation on endurance as interruption rather than progress, offering a radical rethinking of time, agency, and survival.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Persistence\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration into the elusive, unruly force of endurance--not as moral virtue or capitalist work ethic, but as a temporal and affective structure that resists assimilation. In these wide-ranging philosophical and literary essays, Rebecca Comay interrogates what it means to persist when progress stalls and resolution fails to arrive. Engaging figures from Freud to Beckett, Proust to Benjamin, Hamlet to Niobe, Comay tracks the strange temporality of suspended life: interminable mourning, unfinished projects, the persistence of the past, the undead stirrings of the death drive. What emerges is a radically different model of time--neither static nor teleological, but a form of interruption that opens space for rethinking agency, grief, resistance, and repair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Persistence\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profound meditation on what it means to endure--and to endure differently--in a time that demands something else of us.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRebecca Comay\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Toronto. She is a core member of the Literature and Critical Theory Program and affiliated with the Germanic Languages and Literatures Department and the Centre for Jewish Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.91 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 23, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48343340122333,"sku":"9781803096360","price":52.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/8RyTiZHy9r9781803096360.webp?v=1786066049","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/on-persistence-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}