Frédéric Neyrat
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277551
- eISBN:
- 9780823280605
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277551.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter proposes the necessity of a radicalized existentialism for a world in which both philosophy and existence are denied the possibility of an outside. Outlining the situation of ...
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This chapter proposes the necessity of a radicalized existentialism for a world in which both philosophy and existence are denied the possibility of an outside. Outlining the situation of contemporary thought, in which both poststructuralism and Object-Oriented Ontology have tended to deny binary difference and hierarchy at the expense of reproducing those hierarchies or of flattening everything onto a single plane of existence, Neyrat defines a new version of transcendence, transcendence ≈ x, which does not delimit a transcendent entity so much as set up a motion toward the outside. In the face of this contemporary ontological regime of saturated immanence, which is both philosophical and practical, Neyrat argues that philosophy’s task is to re-think existence in all its eccentricity, starting from the category of the trans-ject, and to stake out an atopia, an inside-outside space for thought and being.
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This chapter proposes the necessity of a radicalized existentialism for a world in which both philosophy and existence are denied the possibility of an outside. Outlining the situation of contemporary thought, in which both poststructuralism and Object-Oriented Ontology have tended to deny binary difference and hierarchy at the expense of reproducing those hierarchies or of flattening everything onto a single plane of existence, Neyrat defines a new version of transcendence, transcendence ≈ x, which does not delimit a transcendent entity so much as set up a motion toward the outside. In the face of this contemporary ontological regime of saturated immanence, which is both philosophical and practical, Neyrat argues that philosophy’s task is to re-think existence in all its eccentricity, starting from the category of the trans-ject, and to stake out an atopia, an inside-outside space for thought and being.
Frédéric Neyrat
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277551
- eISBN:
- 9780823280605
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277551.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter begins by taking stock of today’s hydroglobe, in which all varieties of global flux tend toward the inertia that produces saturated immanence. This immanence is temporal as well as ...
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This chapter begins by taking stock of today’s hydroglobe, in which all varieties of global flux tend toward the inertia that produces saturated immanence. This immanence is temporal as well as spatial, produced by clairvoyance societies that do not punish deviation or alterity but seek to prevent it. This drive toward prevention is defined as the immunological drive of societies, structures, and individuals to remain undamaged in the face of forms of contagion which they at once produce and ward off. The task of philosophy is to carve out space for existence under these conditions. Yet Neyrat specifies that only a certain type of transcendence is useful: transcendence ≈ x, or the motion of a pluralized world of beings toward an outside. Finally, this chapter introduces the idea of a divergence internal to philosophy itself, through the figure of Socrates, who contains within him a split, a space, and the atopia necessary for philosophy.
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This chapter begins by taking stock of today’s hydroglobe, in which all varieties of global flux tend toward the inertia that produces saturated immanence. This immanence is temporal as well as spatial, produced by clairvoyance societies that do not punish deviation or alterity but seek to prevent it. This drive toward prevention is defined as the immunological drive of societies, structures, and individuals to remain undamaged in the face of forms of contagion which they at once produce and ward off. The task of philosophy is to carve out space for existence under these conditions. Yet Neyrat specifies that only a certain type of transcendence is useful: transcendence ≈ x, or the motion of a pluralized world of beings toward an outside. Finally, this chapter introduces the idea of a divergence internal to philosophy itself, through the figure of Socrates, who contains within him a split, a space, and the atopia necessary for philosophy.
