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by contemporary Argentine writers Ricardo Piglia, Guillermo Martinez and
Marcelo Cohen, which draw on theories of formal systems, chaos, emergence, and
complexity to counter proclamations of the end of philosophy or the exhaustion
of literature in the post-modern era. This book makes a significant
contribution to our understanding of how newness and creativity have been
theorised, tracing often unexpected relationships between thinkers such as
Nietzsche, Deleuze, and the Russian Formalists. It is also the first time that
a major study in English has been published on the work of Martinez, Piglia, or
Cohen.