Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction - Rilegato

Brassier, Ray

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ISBN 10: 0230522041 ISBN 13: 9780230522046

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Riassunto

This book pushes nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by linking revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy with anti-phenomenological realism in French philosophy. Contrary to the 'post-analytic' consensus uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against scientism and scepticism, this book links eliminative materialism and speculative realism.

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Recensione:

'[A] powerfully original work which determinedly sets in motion profound and searching questions about philosophy in its relation to the universe described by scientific thought, and to human ends [...] Forcibly disabusing use of the assumption that we have somehow dealt with the problem of nihilism, this book reawakens, and even intensifies the toubling, disruptive power for thought that it once heralded.' - Robin Mackay, Parallax

'Nihil Unbound makes good on many of its promises, chief among them providing the reader a rare experience: actual philosophical discovery [...] Brassier's [...] work provides stunning evidence of at least one of Adorno's contentions: "Thought honors itself by defending what is damned as nihilism."' - Knox Peden, Continental Philosophy Review

'Alain Badiou and Slavoj i ek are the most renowned incarnation of a contemporary European philosophy finally in the process of stepping out from under the shadow of Kantian transcendental idealism and its complex, two-hundred-year aftermath [...] Ray Brassier too is one of the thinkers at the forefront of these exciting new developments.' Adrian Johnston, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

L'autore:

RAY BRASSIER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0230522041
• ISBN 13: 9780230522046
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 275