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Highlights
- By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière and Marcel Proust, Rok Benčin proposes a new understanding of these worlds as overlapping transcendental frameworks consisting of fictional structures that frame ontological multiplicity.
- About the Author: Rok Benčin is a Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
- 240 Pages
- Philosophy, History & Surveys
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About the Book
By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière and Marcel Proust, Rok Benčin explores the idea that reality is structured as a multiplicity of divergent, yet coexisting worlds.
Book Synopsis
By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière and Marcel Proust, Rok Benčin proposes a new understanding of these worlds as overlapping transcendental frameworks consisting of fictional structures that frame ontological multiplicity.
Examining political conflicts and aesthetic interferences that exist between divergent worlds today, he reconsiders the way political and artistic practices reconfigure contemporary experiences of worldliness.
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Shows how fiction makes philosophy see reality as a multiplicity of worlds Rok Benčin explores the idea that reality is structured as a multiplicity of divergent, yet coexisting worlds. By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière and Marcel Proust, he proposes a new understanding of these worlds as overlapping transcendental frameworks consisting of fictional structures that frame ontological multiplicity. Examining political conflicts and aesthetic interferences that exist between divergent worlds today, he reconsiders the way political and artistic practices reconfigure contemporary experiences of worldliness. Rok Benčin is a Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.Review Quotes
What does it mean to inhabit not a world, but a multiplicity of worlds, how do their scissions and proliferations constitute the contemporary predicament? Rok Bencin's book, taking its cue from Leibniz, explores this multiplicity through the works of Deleuze, Badiou, Proust, Rancière, confronts their thresholds and overlappings, both in their aesthetic, ontological, and political dimensions. It states anew, with a strong conceptual grip, what has been spared out both by the disqualification of the world by the infinity of science or by its equation with the innate loss of a unified cosmos: the discontinous frameworks our reality is made of.
-- "Antonia Birnbaum, University of Applied Arts, Vienna"About the Author
Rok Benčin is a Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His research focuses on the relations between aesthetics, ontology and politics in contemporary philosophy. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Paris 8 and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He has published journal articles in Theory, Culture & Society, European Review and SubStance: A review of theory and literary criticism. He is a member of the International Comparative Literature Association's Research Committee on Literary Theory.