After life / Eugene Thacker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thacker, Eugene.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Life.

Physical Description:

xvi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Contents:

Life and the living (on Aristotelian biohorror)

Supernatural horror as the paradigm for life

Aristotle's De anima and the problem of life

The ontology of life

The entelechy of the weird

Superlative life

Life with or without limits

Life as time in Plotinus

On the superlative

Superlative life I: Pseudo-Dionysius

Negative vs. affirmative theology

Superlative negation

Negation and preexistent life

Excess, evil, and non-being

Superlative life II: Eriugena

Negation in the Periphyseon

The quaestio de nihilo: on nothing

The quaestio de nihilo: superlative nothing

Dark intelligible abyss

Apophasis

The apophatic logic

Negation in Frege and Ayer

Negation vs. subtraction in Badiou

Negation and contradiction in Priest

The dialetheic vitalism of negative theology

Ellipses: Suhrawardī and the luminous void

Univocal creatures

On spiritual creatures

Life as form in Aristotle

The concept of the creature

Univocity I: Duns Scotus vs. Aquinas

Univocity in Aquinas' Summa theologica

Univocity in Duns Scotus' Opus oxoniense

The common nature of the creature

Univocity II: Duns Scotus vs. Henry of Ghent

Univocity in Henry of Ghent

Negative vs. privative indetermination

Absolute indetermination

Univocity III: Deleuze's scholasticism

three variations

Variation I: Spinoza et le problème de l'expression

Variation II: Différence et répétition

Variation III: Cours de Vincennes

Ellipses: Dōgen and uncreated univocity

Dark pantheism

Everything and nothing

Life as spirit in Aquinas

The concept of the divine nature

Immanence I: Eriugena's Periphyseon

Natura and the unthought

Universal life

Four statements on pantheism

Immanence II: Duns Scotus' Reportatio IA

Univocal immanence

Actual infinity

The pathology of the triple primacy

Immanence III: Nicholas of Cusa's De docta ignorantia

The coincidence of opposites

The folds of life

Absolute vs. contracted pantheism

Speculative pantheism (Deleuze's interlocutors)

Pantheism and pure immanence

The insubordination of immanence in Deleuze

Scholia I: the isomorphism of univocity and immanence

Scholia II: the vitalist logic of common notions

Scholia III: the life of substance

Ellipses: Wang Yangming and idealist naturalism

Logic and life (on Kantian teratology)

The wandering line from Aristotle to Kant

Critique of life

Spectral life and speculative realism

Ontotheology in Kant, atheology in Bataille

The night land.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226793719

9780226793726

0226793710

0226793729

OCLC:

540644056