Architecture of the possible
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Architecture of the possible
Polity Press, c2022
- : pbk.
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"Originally published in French as L'architecture du possible c Presses universitaires de France/Humansis, 2021"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As a philosopher and a novelist, Tristan Garcia inhabits two worlds, metaphysics and literary fiction, like an amphibious creature moving between the land and the sea, breathing in both air and water. He is drawn to metaphysics because, as he puts it, metaphysics is the edge of the abyss of thought, the unstable frontier of indeterminacy where thinking is no longer constrained by the principles of logic or the law of non-contradiction. Metaphysics seeks to describe the world from outside one's own point of view. It aims at an ecstatic reconstruction of what keeps us locked up in our conditions, in our time and place, here among the living, with our subjectivities and within our situations. It gives us an idea of all constraints from a point of view that posits the possible absence of the constraint of having a point of view.
The ambition of this slender book - which is at the same time a concise introduction to Garcia's work and thought - is to help us grasp and transform the conditions of our existence by paying equal attention to what is ending and what is just beginning, to the dusk and to the dawn. Until we cannot hold our breath any longer.
Table of Contents
Language, Thought, and Fiction
Philosophical Feeling
Philosophical Orientation
Intensification, Extension, Breaking Point
Literature: Ideas in a Body
Models of Concision and Models of Profusion
Childhood and Irenicism
War
Finding a Viewpoint
Solitude
Activists
Nuanced Minds and Rough Minds
Radicalness
The Enemy
Friends
Progress and Movement
The World After
Thinking Saves
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