Title Atopias : manifesto for a radical existentialism / Frédéric Neyrat ; translated by Walt Hunter and Lindsay Turner

Edition First edition Published New York [New York] : Fordham University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 100 pages) Series Lit z Lit z. Contents Foreword / by Steven Shaviro -- Critique of pure madness -- Book I. Toposophy -- Book II. Theory of the trans-ject -- Book III. The metaphysical proposition -- What cries out Summary Atopias is a manifesto for a radical existentialism that restores the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside "atopia": not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world, but atopia, the internal outside that is at the core of every being. Atopia is neither an object that an object-oriented ontology might formalize, nor the matter that new materialisms might identify. Atopia is what constitutes the eccentric existence of every being. Etymologically, to exist means "to be outside" and Atopias argues that every entity is outside, thrown in the world without ontological anchor. In this regard, a radicalized existentialism no longer privileges human beings, as Sartre and Heidegger did, but considers existence a universal condition of every being. Now, when our denial of any outside is at its most damaging, is the moment for such a radical existentialism. Only an atopian philosophy-a bizarre, extravagant, heretic philosophy-can rechannel our fear of the outside. Breaking the immanence in which we are trapped, Atopias opens new ways to consider human and animal subjectivity, language, politics, and metaphysics This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates. Neyrat calls this outside "atopia": not utopia, a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect, but atopia, the internal outside that is at the core of every being. Atopia is neither an object that an "object-oriented ontology" would be able to formalize, nor the matter that "new materialisms" could identify. Atopia is what constitutes the existence of any object or subject, its singularity or more precisely its "eccentricity." Etymologically, to exist means "to be outside" and the book argues that every entity is outside, thrown in the world, wandering without any ontological anchor. In this regard, a radicalized existentialism does not privilege human beings (as Sartre and Heidegger did), but considers existence as a universal condition that concerns every being.It is important to offer a radical existentialism because the current denial of the outside is politically, and aesthetically, damaging. Only an atopian philosophy-a bizarre, extravagant, heretic philosophy-can care for our fear of the outside. For therapeutic element, a radical existentialism favors everything that challenges the compact immanence in which we are trapped, losing capacity to imagine political alternatives. To sustain these alternatives, the book identifies the atopia as a condition of the possibility to break immanence and analyze these breaks in human and animal subjectivity, language, politics and metaphysics Notes Translation of: Atopies : manifeste pour la philosophie Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Translation of: Atopies : manifeste pour la philosophie Subject Philosophy. Existentialism. Philosophy Existentialism philosophy. existentialism. PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Post-Structuralism. Philosophy Existentialism Form Electronic book Author Turner, Lindsay, translator Hunter, Walt (Professor of world literature), translator ISBN 9780823277582 0823277585 9780823277551 0823277550 9780823277568 0823277569 9780823280605 0823280608

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