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Beschreibung
Contemporary theory has pushed the boundaries of the concept of the living, urging us to consider a vitality that manifests beyond the human, animal or even the organic altogether. Recognizing the vast variety of modes of existence and vibrancy entails-such is the claim-a new ethics and politics. The philosopher Eckardt Lindner intervenes in this discussion. He claims that we have not yet properly understood how and to what effect we can break the organo-centrism of philosophy, and have neglected to consider the inner contradictions of such novel amalgams of vitalism and materialism.

As an unlikely ally in his critical project, he investigates the inner tension in Deleuze's works between an overtly vitalist stance and critiques of classical forms of vitalism, bordering on a novel anti-vitalism. Against active forms of vitalism, interested in more immersion in the world, interconnectedness and ever more efficacious praxis, one can find in Deleuze a passive vitalism. This subterranean thought in the philosophy of immanence highlights the capacity of life to disorient itself, to be out of line with itself, to detach itself from purposeful action and its own inner goals; evental instead of acting.

Lindner explores this passive vitalism by drawing together thinkers such as Deleuze, Cioran, Laruelle, Kant and Derrida. Suspicious of the moralistic and enthusiastic tendency of new materialisms, this vitalism would be inherently critical-even of its own commitments to liveliness-and thus gestures to a new politics and ethics of life.

Contemporary theory has pushed the boundaries of the concept of the living, urging us to consider a vitality that manifests beyond the human, animal or even the organic altogether. Recognizing the vast variety of modes of existence and vibrancy entails-such is the claim-a new ethics and politics. The philosopher Eckardt Lindner intervenes in this discussion. He claims that we have not yet properly understood how and to what effect we can break the organo-centrism of philosophy, and have neglected to consider the inner contradictions of such novel amalgams of vitalism and materialism.

As an unlikely ally in his critical project, he investigates the inner tension in Deleuze's works between an overtly vitalist stance and critiques of classical forms of vitalism, bordering on a novel anti-vitalism. Against active forms of vitalism, interested in more immersion in the world, interconnectedness and ever more efficacious praxis, one can find in Deleuze a passive vitalism. This subterranean thought in the philosophy of immanence highlights the capacity of life to disorient itself, to be out of line with itself, to detach itself from purposeful action and its own inner goals; evental instead of acting.

Lindner explores this passive vitalism by drawing together thinkers such as Deleuze, Cioran, Laruelle, Kant and Derrida. Suspicious of the moralistic and enthusiastic tendency of new materialisms, this vitalism would be inherently critical-even of its own commitments to liveliness-and thus gestures to a new politics and ethics of life.

Zusammenfassung
Eckardt Lindner Eckardt Lindner lebt und arbeitet als Philosoph in Berlin. Er unterrichtete Philosophie und Politische Theorie an der Universität Wien. Zur Zeit beschäftigt er sich mit leiblicher Passivität, zeitgenössischem Vitalismus und Anti-Vitalismus, sowie der Ethik und Politik der Erschöpfung.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
11 - 46 Introduction (Eckardt Lindner)47 - 144 Sublime Organicism (Eckardt Lindner)145 - 238 The Unlivable (Eckardt Lindner)238 - 308 Absolute Xenogenesis (Eckardt Lindner)309 - 381 Non-Life (Eckardt Lindner)381 - 505 Post-Vitalism (Eckardt Lindner)505 - 540 Conclusion: Failure (Eckardt Lindner)
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Philosophie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 550 S.
ISBN-13: 9783035807004
ISBN-10: 3035807000
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lindner, Eckardt
Hersteller: diaphanes
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: diaphanes verlag, Dresdener Str. 118, D-10999 Berlin, vertrieb@diaphanes.net
Maße: 33 x 131 x 220 mm
Von/Mit: Eckardt Lindner
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.10.2024
Gewicht: 0,65 kg
Artikel-ID: 128853258