Indexicalism

Realism and the Metaphysics of Paradox

By: Hilan Bensusan

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Paperback | 30 September 2021

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Hilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and indexical metaphysics that is paradoxical and can also be regarded as a chapter in the critique of metaphysics. Bensusan articulates a metaphysical view of the other - both human and non-human, in what Meillassoux calls ''the great outdoors'' - that can never be totalised into a single or univocal whole. He develops an innovative account of perception, as a matter of our irreducibly situated relationship to this non-totalisable outdoors. In the book''s coda, Bensusan underscores the social-political implications of this radical metaphysics in a postcolonial context in a meditation on the sites of Potosi in the Andes and Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Equally at home with analytic and continental philosophy, Bensusan enlists Levinas, Whitehead, Heidegger, Kripke, Deleuze, Derrida, Benso, Harman, Garcia, Cogburn, McDowell and Haraway. He does so in a way that proves to be transformative for crucial aspects of their work, for contemporary approaches to thinking about what it means to be in our world, and for reckoning with the responsibilities that press upon us from the outside.

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One of the most important books in metaphysics to appear in recent years. Arguing that our metaphysical, epistemological, and ultimately ethical engagements with the world must fundamentally affirm the existence of indexicals, Bensusan's position is both radically new and yet centrally situated within the most significant currents of contemporary philosophy.

--Paul M. Livingston, University of New Mexico

This invaluable work interrupts metaphysical speculation to show how receptivity is always grounded in hospitality. The horizon of thought is determined by that which lies beyond it. The others who remain outside resist totality, thus freeing us for infinite responsibility. Bensusan's paradoxico-metaphysics allows us to warmly welcome the Other's call.

--Christopher RayAlexander

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