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Generative Worlds. New Phenomenological Perspectives on Space and
Time accounts for the phenomenological concept of generativity. In
doing so, this book brings together several recent phenomenological
studies on space and time. Generative studies in phenomenology
propose new ways of conceiving space, time, and the relation
between them. Edited by Luz Ascarate and Quentin Gailhac, the
collection reveals new dimensions to topics such as the generation
of life, birth, historicity, intersubjectivity, narrativity,
institution, touching, and places, and in some cases, the
contributors invert the classical definitions of space and time.
These transformative readings are fruitful for the
interdisciplinary exchange between philosophy and fields such as
cosmology, psychology, and the social sciences. The contributors
ask if phenomenology reaches its own concreteness through the study
of generation and whether it manages to redefine certain dimensions
of space and time which, in other orientations of the Husserlian
method, remain too abstract and detached from the constitutive
becoming of experience.
Las Vegas, an artificial city brought to life in the heart of the
Mojave desert, is the ultimate urban temptation: its shopping
malls, theme parks and casinos offer an unceasing parade of
entertainments and diversions. Its architecture combines slick,
commercial seduction with a childish, cartoon-like appearance; its
streets and arcades are constantly animated with visitors and
residents willingly submitting to the opium of this spectacular
place.
Las Vegas has always fascinated those who write about the American
malaise, from Tom Wolfe to J. G. Ballard, but Begout reveals the
city's other side, adding a valuable philosophical dimension to the
nightmarish, fantastic visions that haunt the imagination of
novelists and film-makers. The author draws minutely detailed
portraits in the form of city scenes - portraits that are often
tragic and sometimes extremely comic. Begout lets himself be
dragged into this party, this "paradise for bastards," as Nick
Tosches calls it.
For Begout, Las Vegas is the consummation of the modern city, the
ultimate destination of our urban experiments, the great
supermarket of the global village. "Neither near nor far, neither
here nor elsewhere, Las Vegas is distinguished by nothingness. For
us it is zeropolis, the non-city that is the very first city, just
as zero is the very first number."
"This is a real gem, as brilliant and remarkable as its
subject"--"Livres Hebdo"
"Begout felicitously combines the philosopher's capacity for
thinking with
the novelist's descriptive power. A success."--"Le Nouvel
Observateur"
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