Worldlessness After Heidegger: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction

Roland Végsö

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Worldlessness After Heidegger

Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction

Roland Végsö

In the series Incitements

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474457637

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Sets out an innovative agenda for the potential applications of worldlessness in practical philosophy

Provides a provocative rereading of post-WWII history of continental philosophy
Advocates worldlessness as a positive value
Situates the argument among the work of Markus Gabriel, Levi Bryant and Timothy Morton
Sets out an innovative agenda for potential applications of the concept of worldlessness in practical philosophy, aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy

Roland Végső opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Opening with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, he goes on to trace the overlooked history of this argument in the works of Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.

This critical genealogy shows that the post-Heideggerian critique of the phenomenological tradition remained limited by its unquestioning investment in the category of the ‘world’. As a way out of this historical predicament, Végsö encourages us to create affirmative definitions of worldlessness.

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1 The Metaphysics of Worldlessness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
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3 The Science of Worldlessness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 336
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474457637