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Post-Continental Philosophy - An Outline (Paperback)
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Post-Continental Philosophy - An Outline (Paperback)
Series: Transversals: New Directions in Philosophy
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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 Francois
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.
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