This book examines Clarice Lispector's body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical questions, which are placed in conversation with a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches. It was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Fernanda Negrete is the author of The Aesthetic Clinic: Feminine Sublimation in Contemporary Writing, Psychoanalysis, and Art (2020). She directs the University at Buffalo's Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis & Culture and coedits its journal Penumbr(a). She coedited Beckett beyond Words (Samuel Beckett Today/aujourd'hui 30.2).

Introduction: Philosophy with Clarice Lispector 1. Apprenticeships 1. To write is to think [the - is] being 2. Tracing an ethics of risk with Clarice Lispector 3. Lispector's halo: Life contemplating itself in The Hour of the Star 2. Subtle Revolutions 4. We are all the smallest woman in the world: Figures of the immanent and the neuter in Clarice Lispector 5. "When the egg breaks, the chicken bleeds": Unsettling coloniality through fertility in Lispector's The Passion According to G.H. and the Chronicles 6. In the shadows of the cosmos: On the margins of Clarice Lispector's creative worlds 3. Uncommon experiences 7. Affective consisting in Lispector's An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures 8. "To Enter the Core of Death": Listening to the Rhythm of Death in Água Viva and The Passion According to G.H. alongside the Psychoanalytic Clinic 9. The Failure of Language amidst the Joy of Grace: Reading Lispector's Água Viva as a Philosophy of (Non)religious Insight 4. On the Edge of Thought 10. All of Nothing: "Dishumanization" in Lispector and Heidegger 11. Clarice Lispector's Philosophy of Time 12. "Could it be that what I write to you is behind thought?" (Dialogue with Água Viva by Clarice Lispector)