Worldlessness After Heidegger: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Deconstruction
Roland Végsö
Abstract
The book opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Beginning with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, it traces the overlooked history of this concept in the works of Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou. This critical genealogy shows that the post-Heideggerian critique of the phenomenological tradition remained limited by its enduring investment in the category of the ‘world’. As a way out of this historical predicament, the book encourages us to create affirma ... More
Keywords: ontology, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, world, worldlessness, politics
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474457613 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2020 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474457613.001.0001 |
