Research Catalog

Title

After life / Eugene Thacker.

Author

Thacker, Eugene.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Details

Description

xvi, 295 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Ontology
• Life

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Life and the living (on Aristotelian biohorror) -- Supernatural horror as the paradigm for life -- Aristotle's De anima and the problem of life -- The ontology of life -- The entelechy of the weird -- Superlative life -- Life with or without limits -- Life as time in Plotinus -- On the superlative -- Superlative life I: Pseudo-Dionysius -- Negative vs. affirmative theology -- Superlative negation -- Negation and preexistent life -- Excess, evil, and non-being -- Superlative life II: Eriugena -- Negation in the Periphyseon -- The quaestio de nihilo: on nothing -- The quaestio de nihilo: superlative nothing -- Dark intelligible abyss -- Apophasis -- The apophatic logic -- Negation in Frege and Ayer -- Negation vs. subtraction in Badiou -- Negation and contradiction in Priest -- The dialetheic vitalism of negative theology -- Ellipses: Suhrawardī and the luminous void -- Univocal creatures -- On spiritual creatures -- Life as form in Aristotle -- The concept of the creature -- Univocity I: Duns Scotus vs. Aquinas -- Univocity in Aquinas' Summa theologica -- Univocity in Duns Scotus' Opus oxoniense -- The common nature of the creature -- Univocity II: Duns Scotus vs. Henry of Ghent -- Univocity in Henry of Ghent -- Negative vs. privative indetermination -- Absolute indetermination -- Univocity III: Deleuze's scholasticism--three variations -- Variation I: Spinoza et le problème de l'expression -- Variation II: Différence et répétition -- Variation III: Cours de Vincennes -- Univocal creatures -- Ellipses: Dōgen and uncreated univocity -- Dark pantheism -- Everything and nothing -- Life as spirit in Aquinas -- The concept of the divine nature -- Immanence I: Eriugena's Periphyseon -- Natura and the unthought -- Universal life -- Four statements on pantheism -- Immanence II: Duns Scotus' Reportatio IA -- Univocal immanence -- Actual infinity -- The pathology of the triple primacy -- Immanence III: Nicholas of Cusa's De docta ignorantia -- The coincidence of opposites -- The folds of life -- Absolute vs. contracted pantheism -- Speculative pantheism (Deleuze's interlocutors) -- Pantheism and pure immanence -- The insubordination of immanence in Deleuze -- Scholia I: the isomorphism of univocity and immanence -- Scholia II: the vitalist logic of common notions -- Scholia III: the life of substance -- Dark pantheism -- Ellipses: Wang Yangming and idealist naturalism -- Logic and life (on Kantian teratology) -- The wandering line from Aristotle to Kant -- Critique of life -- Spectral life and speculative realism -- Ontotheology in Kant, atheology in Bataille -- The night land.

Call Number

JFE 10-7016

ISBN

• 9780226793719 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780226793726 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0226793710 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226793729 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2010007700

OCLC

YBP 2010007700

Author

Thacker, Eugene.

Title

After life / Eugene Thacker.

Imprint

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 10-7016