Neofinalism
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Neofinalism
(Posthumanities, 36)
University of Minnesota Press, c2016
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Néo-finalisme
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Originally published: 1952
Translated from the French
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism, considered by many to be Ruyer's magnum opus, English-language readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy with science.
Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where science began, Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearly unclassifiable metaphysics and reactivated philosophy's capacity to reflect on its canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life? What is the status of subjectivity? And how is freedom possible? Ha
Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction: Form and Phenomenon in Raymond Ruyer's Philosophy
Mark B. N. Hansen
1. The Axiological Cogito
2. Description of Finalist Activity
3. Finalist Activity and Organic Life
4. The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism
5. Finalist Activity and the Nervous System
6. The Brain and the Embryo
7. Signification of Equipotentiality
8. The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and "Material" Existence
9. "Absolute Surfaces" and Absolute Domains of Survey
10. Absolute Domains and Bonds
11. Absolute Domains and Finality
12. The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual
13. The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity
14. The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe
15. The Neo-Materialist Theories
16. Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection
17. Neo-Darwinism and Genetics
18. Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality
19. Psycho-Lamarckism
20. Theology of Finality
Summary
Translator's Afterword: The Ends of Thought
Alyosha Edlebi
Notes
Index
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