Post-Continental Philosophy: An OutlineA&C Black, 1 Ιαν 2006 - 260 σελίδες Post-Continental Philosophy outlines the shift in Continental thought over the last 20 years through the work of four central figures: Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, Michel Henry, and François Laruelle. Though they follow seemingly different methodologies and agendas, each insists on the need for a return to the category of immanence if philosophy is to have any future at all. Rejecting both the German phenomenological tradition of transcendence (of the Ego, Being, Consciousness, Alterity, or Flesh), as well as the French Structuralist valorisation of Language, they instead take the immanent categories of biology (Deleuze), mathematics (Badiou), affectivity (Henry), and axiomatic science (Laruelle) as focal points for a renewal of thought. Consequently, Continental philosophy is taken in a new direction that engages science and nature with a refreshingly critical and non-reductive approach to life, set-theory, embodiment, and knowledge. However, each of these new philosophies of immanence still regards what the other is doing as transcendent representation, raising the question of what this return to immanence really means. John Mullarkey's analysis provides a startling answer. By teasing out their internal differences, he discovers that the only thing that can be said of immanence without falling back into transcendent representation seems not to be a saying at all but a 'showing', a depiction through lines. Because each of these philosophies also places a special value on the diagram, the common ground of immanence is that occupied by the philosophical diagram rather than the word. The heavily illustrated final chapter of the book literally outlines how a mode of philosophical discourse might proceed when using diagrams to think immanence. |
Περιεχόμενα
Deleuze and the Travails of Virtual Immanence | 12 |
Henry and the Affects of Actual Immanence | 48 |
The Universal Quantifier | 83 |
François Laruelle | 125 |
Thinking in Diagrams | 157 |
The Shape of Thoughts to Come | 187 |
Bibliography of Works Cited | 235 |
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absolute abstract abstract machine actual actualisation affect aporia appearance auto-affection axiom becoming Bergson Brassier Bufalo category theory chapter circularity compossibility concept Continental philosophy Deleuze and Guattari Deleuze's Deleuzian depiction Derrida Descartes descriptivism diagram diagrammatic dualism dyad empiricism essence event experience feeling fidelity Figure force Hallward Heidegger Heidegger's Hence Henry's Husserl idea indefinite infinite infinity instance kind language Laruelle Laruelle's logic Logiques des mondes machine Massumi mathematics matheme matter Matter and Memory meaning Merleau-Ponty metaphilosophical metaphysics molar molecular monism movement multiple nature non-philosophy notion novelty object ontology paradox perception phenomenology philosophy of immanence plane of immanence plurality political position possible Post-Continental present problem pure quantity question radical reality reduced reference reflexive regress relation representation sense set theory simply singular situation spatial Spinoza structure subtractive thing thinking thought Thousand Plateaus transcendence transcendental truth types virtual virtualisation void words