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Being and Not Being
- End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy
Engelsk Hardback
Being and Not Being
- End Times of Posthumanism and the Future Undoing of Philosophy
Engelsk Hardback

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Against the grain of many contemporary theoretical positions that indulge in delusions of safety and certainty, Being and Not Being argues that contingency is definitive of the structure of being itself. As a result, any predictions about the future founded upon present or habitual states of being are necessarily subject to possible error given the unpredictability that is the condition of all emergent forms of being. Rather than signal the absence of an ethical dimension, this prior inscription of potential, which gives rise to profoundly unforeseen forms of being, necessarily invokes an a priori ethical demand that is common to biological and technological systems alike. This ethical demand transforms the ‘rules’ of critical and ethical engagement not simply with other, ‘inhuman’ forms of being, but with the future itself. Indeed, this ethical demand requires us to pose serious questions about the legitimacy and usefulness of any decisions made today on the back of predicted futures that erroneously presume the absolute determinability of all beings lacking the alchemical privilege definitive of life. As the exemplary figure of unfounded privilege, it is with Hamlet that the question of life ultimately ends, replaced instead by the extremophile as the figure of unforeseen futures that simply cannot be imagined in the present. To be is the potential to be otherwise, that is to say, to not be that which a given being is.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781538188224
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1538188228
Udg. Dato:
6 dec 2023
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
159mm
Forlag:
Rowman & Littlefield
Oplagsdato:
6 dec 2023
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