Atopias : Manifesto for a Radical Existentialism / Frédéric Neyrat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neyrat, Frédéric, Author.

Contributor:

Hunter, Walt

Shaviro, Steven

Turner, Lindsay

Series:

Lit z.

Lit Z

Standardized Title:

Atopies. English

Language:

English

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Existentialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside “atopia”: not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that is at the core of every being. Atopia is neither an object that an “object-oriented ontology” would be able to formalize, nor the matter that “new materialisms” could identify. Atopia is what constitutes the existence of any object or subject, its singularity or more precisely its “eccentricity.” Etymologically, to exist means “to be outside” and the book argues that every entity is outside, thrown in the world, wandering without any ontological anchor. In this regard, a radicalized existentialism does not privilege human beings (as Sartre and Heidegger did), but considers existence as a universal condition that concerns every being. It is important to offer a radical existentialism because the current denial of the outside is politically, and aesthetically, damaging. Only an atopian philosophy—a bizarre, extravagant, heretic philosophy—can care for our fear of the outside. For therapeutic element, a radical existentialism favors everything that challenges the compact immanence in which we are trapped, losing capacity to imagine political alternatives. To sustain these alternatives, the book identifies the atopia as a condition of the possibility to break immanence and analyze these breaks in human and animal subjectivity, language, politics and metaphysics.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Critique of Pure Madness

The Undamaged and the Contagious

Saturated Immanence and Transcendence ≈ x

Socratic Divergence

Being-Outside

Coalitions

Absolved Freedom

Language and Disjoining

On the Subject of Animals

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

Index

Notes:

Translation of: Atopies : manifeste pour la philosophie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-8232-8060-8

0-8232-7758-5

OCLC:

1001412348