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Foucault, Nancy, Agamben – The Crisis of the A Priori in the Era of Theoretical Anti-Humanism
Foucault, Nancy, Agamben – The Crisis of the A Priori in the Era of Theoretical Anti-Humanism

Author(s): Wouter Goris
Subject(s): Epistemology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology
Published by: Издателство »Изток-Запад«
Keywords: theoretical anti-humanism; ontology; crisis of the a priori; empirico-transcendental doubles; experience.

Summary/Abstract: The present contribution discusses some determining patterns in contemporary continental philosophy as evidenced by the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben, viz. theoretical antihumanism and the crisis of the a priori. It argues that the return of a post-humanist variant of the anthropological doubles in the work of Michel Foucault is no isolated phenomenon and that, hence, the historical a priori of modernity is less defined by transcendental subjectivity than by the series of doubles to which even the criticism of transcendental subjectivity still succumbs. Furthermore, this contribution argues that a crisis of the a priori presents itself in the post-humanist variant of the anthropological doubles. It makes clear that, according to Nancy and Agamben, (i.) there are transcendental structures that organize the empirical domain and to which one has access within this domain (the empirico-transcendental double), and that (ii.) access to the empirical domain itself is governed by the very transcendental structure to which the empirical domain opens (the crisis of the a priori).

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 359-396
  • Page Count: 38
  • Language: English