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Beschreibung

Proposing a radical reconceptualization of deconstruction and nothingness

The first of two volumes exploring Jacques Derrida's prefiguration of speculative realism, The Nothing and Nothingness examines the transcendental naturalism of Ray Brassier and Iain Hamilton Grant and the speculative materialism of Quentin Meillassoux. Philippe Lynes proposes nothing less than a radical reconceptualization of deconstruction as a call to bear witness to nothingness: let the earth be the earth, let nature be nature, and leave them to their reality, secrecy, and withdrawal without us.

Dearth: Deconstruction After Speculative Realism argues that Derrida's seminars on Martin Heidegger and Maurice Blanchot, La Chose (The Thing), anticipated many of the philosophical, literary, and aesthetic questions animating speculative realism today: an anti-anthropocentric critique of Kantian correlationism an overcoming of the apocalyptic nihilism of extinction through a deeper, affirmative habituation to nothingness and poignant reflections on the literary and poetic aspects of living and dying in impossible worlds. His is an anti-correlationist plea that resounds now more urgently than ever.

Proposing a radical reconceptualization of deconstruction and nothingness

The first of two volumes exploring Jacques Derrida's prefiguration of speculative realism, The Nothing and Nothingness examines the transcendental naturalism of Ray Brassier and Iain Hamilton Grant and the speculative materialism of Quentin Meillassoux. Philippe Lynes proposes nothing less than a radical reconceptualization of deconstruction as a call to bear witness to nothingness: let the earth be the earth, let nature be nature, and leave them to their reality, secrecy, and withdrawal without us.

Dearth: Deconstruction After Speculative Realism argues that Derrida's seminars on Martin Heidegger and Maurice Blanchot, La Chose (The Thing), anticipated many of the philosophical, literary, and aesthetic questions animating speculative realism today: an anti-anthropocentric critique of Kantian correlationism an overcoming of the apocalyptic nihilism of extinction through a deeper, affirmative habituation to nothingness and poignant reflections on the literary and poetic aspects of living and dying in impossible worlds. His is an anti-correlationist plea that resounds now more urgently than ever.

Über den Autor

Philippe Lynesis a researcher with the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dundee, and a visiting scholar with the School of Modern Languages & Cultures at the University of Glasgow.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations
Prologue: The Nature of the Thing
Part 1. Nature Morte (On Transcendental Naturalism)
1 Ecologies of Nothingness
2 The Unthinged in Naturephilosophy
3 The-Thing-That-Is-Not and the View from Nowhere
4 Last Things
Part 2. Before Finitude (On Speculative Materialism)
5 Finitude and Givenness
6 Nature, Literature, and Truth
7 The Right to Literature and the Right to Death, or Fiction and Testimony
Notes
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: 20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780810148970
ISBN-10: 0810148978
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lynes, Philippe
Hersteller: Northwestern University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 229 x 155 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Philippe Lynes
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2026
Gewicht: 0,344 kg
Artikel-ID: 134511459