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Neofinalism (Hardcover)
Alyosha Ruyer; Raymond Ruyer
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Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-World War II
French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant
influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and
Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism,
considered by many to be Ruyer's magnum opus, English-language
readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy
with science. Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where
science began, Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearly unclassifiable
metaphysics and reactivated philosophy's capacity to reflect on its
canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life?
What is the status of subjectivity? And how is freedom possible? Ha
Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that
deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute
surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It
also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the
creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and
makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe.
The philosophy of Raymond Ruyer was an important if subterranean
influence on twentieth-century French thought, and explicitly
engaged with by figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges
Canguilhem, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. The Genesis of
Living Forms is Ruyer's most focussed and forceful analysis of a
central but apparently paradoxical biological phenomenon that also
presents serious problems for philosophy: embryogenesis. When a cat
develops from the early stages of fertilization to an adult, what
is it that makes it the same cat? How is it that a living being can
at once be the same and constantly changing? Ruyer's answer to
these questions unfolds through a detailed set of encounters with
major scientific fields, from particle physics to social
psychology, arguing that the paradox can only be dissolved by
seeing the role that form plays in the ongoing development of
living beings. In Ruyer's view, embryogenesis is a central problem
not just in the life sciences; every thing must possess a relation
to a form that is characteristic of it, from carbon atoms to
embryos, and to embryologists themselves.
Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-World War II
French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant
influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and
Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism,
considered by many to be Ruyer's magnum opus, English-language
readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy
with science. Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where
science began, Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearly unclassifiable
metaphysics and reactivated philosophy's capacity to reflect on its
canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life?
What is the status of subjectivity? And how is freedom possible? Ha
Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that
deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute
surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It
also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the
creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and
makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe.
The philosophy of Raymond Ruyer was an important if subterranean
influence on twentieth-century French thought, and explicitly
engaged with by figures such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Georges
Canguilhem, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze. The Genesis of
Living Forms is Ruyer's most focussed and forceful analysis of a
central but apparently paradoxical biological phenomenon that also
presents serious problems for philosophy: embryogenesis. When a cat
develops from the early stages of fertilization to an adult, what
is it that makes it the same cat? How is it that a living being can
at once be the same and constantly changing? Ruyer's answer to
these questions unfolds through a detailed set of encounters with
major scientific fields, from particle physics to social
psychology, arguing that the paradox can only be dissolved by
seeing the role that form plays in the ongoing development of
living beings. In Ruyer's view, embryogenesis is a central problem
not just in the life sciences; every thing must possess a relation
to a form that is characteristic of it, from carbon atoms to
embryos, and to embryologists themselves.
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