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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.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Prologue: The Nature of the Thing
Part I: 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 II: 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
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