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Destroying the Manifest Image
The Apoptosis of Belief 3
The manifest image and the myth of Jones: Wilfrid Sellars 3
The instrumentalization of the scientific image 6
Cognitive catastrophe: Paul Churchland 9
The neurocomputational alternative 11
The 'paradox' of eliminativism 14
From the superempirical to the metaphysical 18
The appearance of appearance 26
The Thanatosis of Enlightenment 32
Myth and enlightenment: Adorno and Horkheimer 32
The sacrifice of sacrifice 34
Commemorating reflection 39
The dispossession of space 42
The mimesis of death 45
The Enigma of Realism 49
The ache-fossil: Quentin Meillassoux 49
The correlationist response 53
The lacuna of manifestation 53
Instantiating the transcendental 56
Ancestrality and chronology 58
The two regimes of sense 60
The principle of factuality 63
The three figures of factuality 69
The impossibility of contradiction 69
The necessary existenceof contingency 71
The inconstancy of nature 74
The diachronicity of thinking and being 83
The paradox of absolute contingency 85
The Anatomy of Negation
Unbinding the Void 97
The unbinding of being: Alain Badiou 97
The a priority of ontological discourse 98
The law of presentation 101
Structure, metastructure, representation 102
The suture to the unpresentable 104
Presentation as anti-phenomenon 106
The metaontological exception 107
The two regimes of presentation 111
Consequences of subtraction 115
Being Nothing 118
Realism, constructivism, deconstruction: Francois Laruelle 118
The essence of philosophy 120
Philosophical decision as transcendental deduction 122
Naming the real 127
Ventriloquizing philosophy 131
The evacuation of the real 135
Determination in the last instance 138
The thinking object 140
Transcendental unbinding 141
Absolute and relative autonomy 143
Non dialectical negativity 146
The identity of space-time 148
The End of Time
The Pure and Empty Form of Death 153
Who is time?: Heidegger 153
Ekstasis and ekstema 156
Finite possibility and actual infinity 158
Deleuze: time in and for itself 162
The intensive nature of difference 164
Individuation and the individual 171
The syntheses of space and time 174
The fracture of thinking 178
The caesura of the act 181
The two faces of death 185
The fusion of mind and nature 187
The expression of complexity 192
The life of the mind 195
The Truth of Extinction 205
Nietzsche's fable 205
The turning point 215
Solar catastrophe: Lyotard 223
The seizure of phenomenology: Levinas 230
The trauma of life: Freud 234
Binding extinction 238
Notes 240
Bibliography 262
Index of Names 269
Index of Subjects 271
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Fer Rer
reviewed Nihil Unbound on January 23, 2011
Nihil Unbound
Really a dense book. The only criticism I have of this brilliant text is that he relies almost completely on the "Heavy Hitters" of Continental Philosophy (Adorno and Horkheimer, Heidegger, Deleuze, Nietzsche, Lyotard, etc.). While I greatly appreciate the Lit. Review that this book provides, I'm not necessarily sure if it says anything new.
Brassier begins with an amazing rehashing of an ongoing debate between Folk Psychologists and Cognitive Psycholgists (namely Wilfrid Sellars and Paul Churchland), but throughout this text I kept thinking of other books I'd have to master before sinking my teeth into this one. It is really a shame because Brassier is getting lots of attention in the current philosophical circles - along with Graham Harman (who does roughly the same thing, but with Heidegger exclusively)... this sort of inter-textual mish mash of quotations from other works tends to leave me feeling stale.
I had high hopes for this when I ordered it as a desk copy, but soon realized that I could never use this in a meaningful classroom setting. There are several points in the text where I had to sit back and re-read, notably his work on "The Pure and Empty Form of Death" - a juxtaposition of Heidegger and Deleuze. But overall, it seemed like a condensation of other books that one could argue are more important. Brassier's main thesis seems to be a rekindling of the Enlightenment view on Representation, instead of its rebuke (ala Foucault, who incidentally is not indexed or footnoted at all, probably because Foucault does the exact opposite of Brassier in this regard)... All in all, I had high hopes, but was disappointed.
An extremely dense text. It may take several readings to fully grasp the complexity of the argument. Not entirely certain if the payoff is worth the effort. Definitely something for aspiring graduate students who deal with Continental Philosophy in an inter-disciplinary manner (such as myself)... overall, not a light read by any stretch of the imagination.
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