Rick Dolphijn

The Philosophy of Matter (eBook, ePUB)

A Meditation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Philosophy of Matter is a journey in thinking through the material fate of the earth itself; its surfaces and undercurrrents, ecologies, environments and irreparable cracks.

With figures such as Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Serres as philosophical guides and writings on New Materialism, Posthumanism and Affect Theory as intellectual context, Rick Dolphijn proposes a radical rethinking of some of the basic themes of philosophy: subjectivity, materiality, body (both human and otherwise) and the act of living. This rethink is a work of imagination and meditation in order to conceive of "another earth for another people". It is a homage to courageous thinking that dares to question the religious, capitalist and humanist realities of the day.

A poetic philosophy of how to live in troubling times when even the earth beneath us feels unstable, Dolphijn offers a way to think about the world with depth, honesty and glimpses of hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350211926
• Artikelnr.: 62084428

Autorenporträt

Rick Dolphijn is Associate Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands; an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University (2017-2023), Hong Kong; and a Visiting Professor at the University of Barcelona (2019-2020), Spain. He is author of Foodscapes: towards a Deleuzian Ethics of Consumption (2004), New Materialism: Interviews and Cartographies (with Iris van der Tuin) (2012) and edited (with Rosi Braidotti) This Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Life (2014) and Philosophy After Nature (2017). His most recent book is Michel Serres and the Crises of the Contemporary (Bloomsbury 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I IMAGINING THE UNDERCURRENT I Don't Know Where This Is
Going but I Know Where to Begin... The History Of Cartesianism Is The
History Of Critique Why our world demands a different form of thinking
Rewriting Humanism Imagination Is What Matters. It Nurtures Everything Part
II THIS IS NOT THE EARTH! The Philosopher is the Geometer The Deserted. The
Pathologists Of The Earth Become A Target Part III I CAN SEE SOMETHING I Am
Not A Person, Right? Shadows In Shadows The Cracks Of The Contemporary The
Wound (I Was Born To Embody) Part IV GEOMETER, SHOW ME A NEW EARTH The
Geometer Starts From A Physics Beyond Critique The Geometers First Axiom: A
Body Is That Which Folds The Geometer Maps That Which Is Savage, Irregular,
Alive The Geometer Maps How Art Objects Earth. You Are Everywhere