Nihil Unbound. Enlightenment and Extinction

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Contents Preface Part I: Destroying the Manifest Image 1. The Apoptosis of Belief 1.1 The manifest image and the myth of Jones: Wilfrid Sellars 1.2 The instrumentalization of the scientific image 1.3 Cognitive catastrophe: Paul Churchland 1.4 The neurocomputational alternative 1.5 The ‘paradox’ of eliminativism 1.6 From the superempirical to the metaphysical 1.7 The appearance of appearance 2. The Thanatosis of Enlightenment 2.1 Myth and enlightenment: Adorno and Horkheimer 2.2 The sacrifice of sacrifice 2.3 Commemorating reflection 2.4 The dispossession of space 2.5 The mimesis of death 3. The Enigma of Realism 3.1 The arche-fossil: Quentin Meillassoux 3.2 The correlationist response 3.3 The two regimes of sense 3.4 The principle of factuality 3.5 The three figures of factuality 3.6 The diachronicity of thinking and being 3.7 The paradox of absolute contingency Part II: The Anatomy of Negation 4. Unbinding the Void 4.1 The unbinding of being: Alain Badiou 4.2 The a priority of ontological discourse 4.3 The law of presentation 4.4 Structure, metastructure, representation 4.5 The suture to the unpresentable 4.6 Presentation as anti-phenomenon 4.7 The metaontological exception 4.8 The two regimes of presentation 4.9 Consequences of subtraction 5. Being Nothing 5.1 Realism, constructivism, deconstruction: François Laruelle 5.2 The essence of philosophy 5.3 Philosophical decision as transcendental deduction 5.4 Naming the real 5.5 Ventriloquizing philosophy 5.6 The evacuation of the real 5.7 Determination in the last instance 5.8 The thinking object 5.9 Transcendental unbinding 5.10 Absolute and relative autonomy 5.11 Non dialectical negativity 5.12 The identity of space-time Part III: The End of Time 6. The Pure and Empty Form of Death 6.1 Who is time?: Heidegger 6.2 Ekstasis and ekstema 6.3 Finite possibility and actual infinity 6.4 Deleuze: time in and for itself 6.5 The intensive nature of difference 6.6 Individuation and the individual 6.7 The syntheses of space and time 6.8 The fracture of thinking 6.9 The caesura of the act 6.10 The two faces of death 6.11 The fusion of mind and nature 6.12 The expression of complexity 6.13 The life of the mind 7. The Truth of Extinction 7.1 Nietzsche’s fable 7.2 The turning point 7.3 Solar catastrophe: Lyotard 7.4 The seizure of phenomenology: Levinas 7.5 The trauma of life: Freud 7.6 Binding extinction Notes Preface 1. The Apoptosis of Belief 2. The Thanatosis of Enlightenment 3. The Enigma of Realism 4. Unbinding the Void 5. Being Nothing 6. The Pure and Empty Form of Death 7. The Truth of Extinction Bibliography Index of Names A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W Z Index of Subjects A B C D E F H I J L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z