CiNii Books - Neofinalism

Author(s)

- Ruyer, Raymond
- Edlebi, Alyosha
- Hansen, Mark B. N. (Mark Boris Nicola)

Bibliographic Information

Neofinalism

Raymond Ruyer ; translated by Alyosha Edlebi ; introduction by Mark B.N. Hansen

（Posthumanities, 36）

University of Minnesota Press, c2016

: hardcover

Other Title: 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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