Inhuman Rationality: Speculative Realism, Normativity, and Praxis
This article addresses how the Iranian-born philosopher Reza Negarestani has negotiated human distinctiveness in the course of his intellectual journey from speculative realism to inhuman rationalism (Rather than rationalist inhumanism, as some sources have it (Anon 2021)). Moving from challenging t...
| Другие заглавия: | "Special Issue on The Idea of Human Distinctiveness: Unavoidable or Untenable?" (Seite 613-738) |
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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| Опубликовано: |
2023
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Sophia
Год: 2023, Том: 62, Выпуск: 4, Страницы: 723-738 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Sapience
B Sentience B Post-humanism B Intelligence B Correlationism B Speculative realism B Inhumanism B Neo-Pragmatism B Accelerationism |
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| Итог: | This article addresses how the Iranian-born philosopher Reza Negarestani has negotiated human distinctiveness in the course of his intellectual journey from speculative realism to inhuman rationalism (Rather than rationalist inhumanism, as some sources have it (Anon 2021)). Moving from challenging the correlationism of post-Kantian Western philosophy, via critiques of the Deleuze and Guattari's war machine, Nick Land's accelerationism, and Ray Brassier's nihilism, Negarestani eventually turns to the neo-pragmatists of the Pittsburgh School and their reflections on reason, normativity, and praxis. The mapping of this trajectory is divided into four parts: Having already discussed the political theology of Reza Negarestani elsewhere (Kersten, World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, 78(2-4), 256 267, 2022), the first part of this article briefly introduces Reza Negarestani's early theory fiction as an exponent of speculative realism (Negarestani 2008), followed by two sections dedicated to close readings of Negarestani's investigations of the inhuman (Negarestani 2011 and 2014). The examination of these writings will demonstrate how they have served as prolegomena to his next book-length publication, Intelligence and Spirit (2018), a connection that will be briefly assessed in the final part. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-023-00975-y |
