Architecture of the Possible

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5224-5
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 153 Seiten, Format (B × H): 215 mm x 139 mm, Gewicht: 214 g

As a philosopher and a novelist, Tristan Garcia inhabits two worlds, metaphysics and literary fiction, like an amphibious creature moving between the land and the sea, breathing in both air and water. He is drawn to metaphysics because, as he puts it, metaphysics is the edge of the abyss of thought, the unstable frontier of indeterminacy where thinking is no longer constrained by the principles of logic or the law of non-contradiction. Metaphysics seeks to describe the world from outside one’s own point of view. It aims at an ecstatic reconstruction of what keeps us locked up in our conditions, in our time and place, here among the living, with our subjectivities and within our situations. It gives us an idea of all constraints from a point of view that posits the possible absence of the constraint of having a point of view.

The ambition of this slender book – which is at the same time a concise introduction to Garcia’s work and thought – is to help us grasp and transform the conditions of our existence by paying equal attention to what is ending and what is just beginning, to the dusk and to the dawn. Until we cannot hold our breath any longer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Durand, Jean-Marie

Garcia, Tristan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rayalexander, Abigail

RayAlexander, Christopher

Cogburn, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Language, Thought, and Fiction

Philosophical Feeling

Philosophical Orientation

Intensification, Extension, Breaking Point

Literature: Ideas in a Body

Models of Concision and Models of Profusion

Childhood and Irenicism

War

Finding a Viewpoint

Solitude

Activists

Nuanced Minds and Rough Minds

Radicalness

The Enemy

Friends

Progress and Movement

The World After

Thinking Saves

Über Autor(innen)

Tristan Garcia is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon and a prize-winning novelist.  He is the author of Form and Object: A Treatise on Things, The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession and We Ourselves: The Politics of US, among other works.  In 2008 he won the Prix de Flore for his first novel, Hate: A Romance.