Life is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined
directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive,
encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We
can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it
as something at once scientific and mystical, in the return of
vitalisms of all types, and in the pervasive politicization of
life. In short, life seems everywhere at stake and yet is nowhere
the same.
In "After Life, " Eugene Thacker clears the ground for a new
philosophy of life by recovering the twists and turns in its
philosophical history. Beginning with Aristotle's originary
formulation of a philosophy of life, Thacker examines the influence
of Aristotle's ideas in medieval and early modern thought, leading
him to the work of Immanuel Kant, who notes the inherently
contradictory nature of "life in itself." Along the way, Thacker
shows how early modern philosophy's engagement with the problem of
life affects thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Georges Bataille, and
Alain Badiou, as well as contemporary developments in the
"speculative turn" in philosophy.
At a time when life is categorized, measured, and exploited in a
variety of ways, "After Life" invites us to delve deeper into the
contours and contradictions of the age-old question, "what is
life?"
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