Nihil Unbound

Enlightenment and Extinction

By: R. Brassier

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Hardcover | 1 October 2007 | Edition Number 1

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Where much contemporary philosophy seeks to stave off the "threat" of nihilism by safeguarding the experience of meaning--characterized as the defining feature of human existence--from the Enlightenment logic of disenchantment, this book attempts to push nihilism to its ultimate conclusion by forging a link between revisionary naturalism in Anglo-American philosophy and anti-phenomenological realism in recent French philosophy. Contrary to an emerging "post-analytic" consensus which would bridge the analytic-continental divide by uniting Heidegger and Wittgenstein against the twin perils of scientism and skepticism, this book short-circuits both traditions by plugging eliminative materialism directly into speculative realism.

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'[A] powerfully original work which determinedly sets in motion profound and searching questions about philosophy in its relation to the universe described by scientific thought, and to human ends [...] Forcibly disabusing use of the assumption that we have somehow dealt with the problem of nihilism, this book reawakens, and even intensifies the toubling, disruptive power for thought that it once heralded.' - Robin Mackay, Parallax

'Nihil Unbound makes good on many of its promises, chief among them providing the reader a rare experience: actual philosophical discovery [...] Brassier's [...] work provides stunning evidence of at least one of Adorno's contentions: "Thought honors itself by defending what is damned as nihilism."' - Knox Peden, Continental Philosophy Review

'Alain Badiou and Slavoj i ek are the most renowned incarnation of a contemporary European philosophy finally in the process of stepping out from under the shadow of Kantian transcendental idealism and its complex, two-hundred-year aftermath [...] Ray Brassier too is one of the thinkers at the forefront of these exciting new developments.' Adrian Johnston, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

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Preface	p. X
Destroying the Manifest Image
The Apoptosis of Belief	p. 3
The manifest image and the myth of Jones: Wilfrid Sellars	p. 3
The instrumentalization of the scientific image	p. 6
Cognitive catastrophe: Paul Churchland	p. 9
The neurocomputational alternative	p. 11
The 'paradox' of eliminativism	p. 14
From the superempirical to the metaphysical	p. 18
The appearance of appearance	p. 26
The Thanatosis of Enlightenment	p. 32
Myth and enlightenment: Adorno and Horkheimer	p. 32
The sacrifice of sacrifice	p. 34
Commemorating reflection	p. 39
The dispossession of space	p. 42
The mimesis of death	p. 45
The Enigma of Realism	p. 49
The ache-fossil: Quentin Meillassoux	p. 49
The correlationist response	p. 53
The lacuna of manifestation	p. 53
Instantiating the transcendental	p. 56
Ancestrality and chronology	p. 58
The two regimes of sense	p. 60
The principle of factuality	p. 63
The three figures of factuality	p. 69
The impossibility of contradiction	p. 69
The necessary existence of contingency	p. 71
The inconstancy of nature	p. 74
The diachronicity of thinking and being	p. 83
The paradox of absolute contingency	p. 85
The Anatomy of Negation
Unbinding the Void	p. 97
The unbinding of being: Alain Badiou	p. 97
The a priority of ontological discourse	p. 98
The law of presentation	p. 101
Structure, metastructure, representation	p. 102
The suture to the unpresentable	p. 104
Presentation as anti-phenomenon	p. 106
The metaontological exception	p. 107
The two regimes of presentation	p. 111
Consequences of subtraction	p. 115
Being Nothing	p. 118
Realism, constructivism, deconstruction: Francois Laruelle	p. 118
The essence of philosophy	p. 120
Philosophical decision as transcendental deduction	p. 122
Naming the real	p. 127
Ventriloquizing philosophy	p. 131
The evacuation of the real	p. 135
Determination in the last instance	p. 138
The thinking object	p. 140
Transcendental unbinding	p. 141
Absolute and relative autonomy	p. 143
Non dialectical negativity	p. 146
The identity of space-time	p. 148
The End of Time
The Pure and Empty Form of Death	p. 153
Who is time?: Heidegger	p. 153
Ekstasis and ekstema	p. 156
Finite possibility and actual infinity	p. 158
Deleuze: time in and for itself	p. 162
The intensive nature of difference	p. 164
Individuation and the individual	p. 171
The syntheses of space and time	p. 174
The fracture of thinking	p. 178
The caesura of the act	p. 181
The two faces of death	p. 185
The fusion of mind and nature	p. 187
The expression of complexity	p. 192
The life of the mind	p. 195
The Truth of Extinction	p. 205
Nietzsche's fable	p. 205
The turning point	p. 215
Solar catastrophe: Lyotard	p. 223
The seizure of phenomenology: Levinas	p. 230
The trauma of life: Freud	p. 234
Binding extinction	p. 238
Notes	p. 240
Bibliography	p. 262
Index of Names	p. 269
Index of Subjects	p. 271
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