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Entropic Affirmation: On the Origins of Conflict in Change, Death, and Otherness

Autor Apple Zefelius Igrek
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 aug 2018
How do we conceptualize death when its very nature implies absence and nothingness? It is difficult to put into words precisely because we want our words to help us delineate the world around us, whereas the absence associated with death is the opposite of such delineation. For this reason, death might be said to represent a form of infinite otherness, something radically different from our usual, finite, anthropomorphic way of thinking about the world. With this in mind, Apple Igrek observes an unusual paradox. Some philosophers argue that we should be more open to that which is infinitely other (as with change or death) in the context of ethics, culture, and politics, while others critique this position since we cannot logically say what is more or less open to the immeasurable. It would therefore seem impossible to defend the relevance of what is infinite to ethics while nevertheless acknowledging the validity of the above-stated critique. If we want, in other words, to say that infinite otherness remains relevant to our social and ethical values, we will have a difficult time doing so unless we create a new methodological approach determining how it is possible for pure absence and alterity to play a role in the creation of those values. In this book Apple Igrek takes up the challenge of articulating this new approach explaining how something transcending our finite comprehension (as with death or never-ending change) is nonetheless essential for describing the construction of social values, especially in terms of describing their conflictual and agonistic tendencies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498567992
ISBN-10: 1498567991
Pagini: 174
Dimensiuni: 159 x 238 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Chapter 1: Thanato-Vitalism
Chapter 2: Infinite Embodiment and Entropic Affirmation
Chapter 3: The Catastrophic Trajectory
Chapter 4: Expansive Singularities
Interlude: Cybernetic Clouds
Chapter 5: Entropic Refraction
Chapter 6: Dolls and Death
Chapter 7: Agonistic Pathos
Chapter 8: Questions and Objections

Recenzii

Although it is rigorously grounded in the Continental tradition, this is a strikingly original philosophical work. It both deepens our reception of that tradition and draws out its ethical ramifications in challenging new directions.
Thinking through the intimate entanglement of life and death, the ways change is itself a constant attribute of this thanato-vitalism, and the constitutive trouble of external social values, Apple Igrek develops a novel and much-needed methodology for approaching agonistic social relations. Given the world we're in, and the world before us, the book could not be more timely.