Atopias : manifesto for a radical existentialism / Frédéric Neyrat ; translated by Walt Hunter and Lindsay Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neyrat, Frédéric, 1968- author.

Series:

Lit z

Standardized Title:

Atopies. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--21st century.

Philosophy, French.

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Civilization, Modern.

Existentialism.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

Translation of: Atopies : manifeste pour la philosophie.

Summary:

Atopias is a manifesto for a radical existentialism that restores the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside "atopia": not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world, but atopia, the internal outside that is at the core of every being. Atopia is neither an object that an object-oriented ontology might formalize, nor the matter that new materialisms might identify. Atopia is what constitutes the eccentric existence of every being. Etymologically, to exist means "to be outside" and Atopias argues that every entity is outside, thrown in the world without ontological anchor. In this regard, a radicalized existentialism no longer privileges human beings, as Sartre and Heidegger did, but considers existence a universal condition of every being. Now, when our denial of any outside is at its most damaging, is the moment for such a radical existentialism. Only an atopian philosophy-a bizarre, extravagant, heretic philosophy-can rechannel our fear of the outside. Breaking the immanence in which we are trapped, Atopias opens new ways to consider human and animal subjectivity, language, politics, and metaphysics.

Contents:

Critique of pure madness

Book I. Toposophy

The undamaged and the contagious

Saturated immanence and transcendence

Socratic divergence

Book II. Theory of the trans-ject

Being-outside

Coalitions

Ab-solved freedom

Language and disjoining

On the subject of animals

Book III. The metaphysical proposition

The transgression of the principle of the excluded middle

The leap and the loop

The unlocatable

The madwoman of the out-of-place

Science(s), art, politics

What cries out.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823277551

0823277550

9780823277568

0823277569

OCLC:

1004758760