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

Author
Neyrat, Frédéric, 1968-
Published
New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
xii, 97 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Turner, Lindsay and Hunter, Walt (Professor of world literature)

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Language Note
Translation of: Atopies : manifeste pour la philosophie.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Book I Toposophy -- The Undamaged and the Contagious -- Saturated Immanence and Transcendence = x -- 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.
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.
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ISBN
9780823277551 hardcover
0823277550 hardcover
9780823277568
0823277569
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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