Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity

Rok Benčin

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2023

Rethinking the Concept of World

Towards Transcendental Multiplicity

Rok Benčin

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399502917

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Explores the idea that reality is structured as a multiplicity of divergent, yet coexisting worlds

Maps different concepts of world in contemporary philosophy and traces their genealogies
Critically examines the ideas on the multiplicity of worlds in contemporary continental philosophy
Rethinks the concept of world as a transcendental framework
Contrasts political cosmopolitanism with Rancière’s conception of politics as a conflict of worlds in order to reframe discussions about current political crises

Proposes a Leibnizian approach to contemporary aesthetics by understanding artworks as monadic objects, which reconfigure the transcendental coordinates of experience

By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière and Marcel Proust, Rok Benčin proposes a new understanding of these worlds as overlapping transcendental frameworks consisting of fictional structures that frame ontological multiplicity.

Examining political conflicts and aesthetic interferences that exist between divergent worlds today, he reconsiders the way political and artistic practices reconfigure contemporary experiences of worldliness.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
INTRODUCTION: THE PROSE OF WORLDS Open Access Download PDF	1
1. WORLD ACCORDING TO CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY: OBSOLETE, LOST OR MULTIPLIED? Open Access Download PDF	16
2. THE LEIBNIZIAN TURN Open Access Download PDF	50
3. BETWEEN ONTOLOGICAL AND TRANSCENDENTAL MULTIPLICITY Open Access Download PDF	69
4. FROM COSMOPOLITANISM TO THE CONFLICT OF WORLDS Open Access Download PDF	104
5. WORLDS AS FICTIONS, ARTWORKS AS MONADIC OBJECTS Open Access Download PDF	137
6. PROUST’S WORLDS: FROM LOGIC TO PROSE Open Access Download PDF	163
CONCLUSION: THE MULTIPLICITY OF WORLDS AND INTER-WORLDLY PHENOMENA Open Access Download PDF	195
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	208
Index Open Access Download PDF	221

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 240
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: January 8, 2023
ISBN: 9781399502917