Entropic Affirmation (eBook)

On the Origins of Conflict in Change, Death, and Otherness

Apple Zefelius Igrek (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
166 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6800-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book develops a new methodological approach to infinite otherness (as with the concept of change that permeates and overturns all limits) which explains how the affirmation of this otherness, despite our best intentions, tends to create a conflictual aspect in social values.

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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.

Autor

Apple Igrek is assistant professor in the Philosophy Department at Oklahoma State University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Thanato-VitalismChapter 2: Infinite Embodiment and Entropic AffirmationChapter 3: The Catastrophic TrajectoryChapter 4: Expansive SingularitiesInterlude: Cybernetic CloudsChapter 5: Entropic RefractionChapter 6: Dolls and DeathChapter 7: Agonistic PathosChapter 8: Questions and Objections

Produkt-Details

• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Agonism • Art History • Badiou • Bataille • Baudrillard • bio-power • Butler • Catastrophe • Continental Philosophy • Cultural Studies • Cultural Theory • Deconstruction • Derrida • eagleton • Foucault • Hans Bellmer • Heraclitus • Mouffe • Psychoanalysis • scapegoating • simulacrum • thanato-vitalism
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6800-9 / 1498568009
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6800-5 / 9781498568005