Meditations, aphorisms, maxims, notes, and comments construct a
philosophy of thought congruent with the inconsistency of our
reality. Those who continue to think never return to their point of
departure. -Inconsistencies These 130 short texts-aphoristic,
interlacing, and sometimes perplexing-target a perennial
philosophical problem: Our consciousness and our experience of
reality are inconsistent, fragmentary, and unstable; God is dead,
and our identity as subjects discordant. How can we establish a new
mode of thought that does not cling to new gods or the false
security of rationality? Marcus Steinweg, as he did in his earlier
book The Terror of Evidence, constructs a philosophical position
from fragments, maxims, meditations, and notes, formulating a
philosophy of thought that expresses and enacts the inconsistency
of our reality. Steinweg considers, among other topics, life as a
game ("To think is to play because no thought is firmly grounded");
sexuality ("wasteful, contradictory, and contingent"); desire
("Desire has a thousand names; It's earned none of them"); reality
("overdetermined and excessively complex"); and world ("a
nonconcept"). He disposes of philosophy in one sentence
("Philosophy is a continual process of its own redefinition.") but
spends multiple pages on "A Tear in Immanence," invoking Nietzsche,
Heidegger, Sartre, and others. He describes "Wandering with
Foucault" ("Thought entails wandering as well as straying into
madness") and brings together Derrida and Debord. He poses a
question: "Why should a cat be more mysterious than a dog?" and
later answers one: "Beauty is truth because truth is beauty." By
the end, we have accompanied Steinweg on converging trains of
thought. "Thinking means continuing to think," he writes, adding
"But thinking can only pose questions by answering others." The
question of inconsistency? Asked and answered, and asked.
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