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(Dis) Emergence to Spectral Subjectivity begins with an overview of the problem of anti-foundationalist metaphysics and subject formation after postmodernism, a “post” conceptual era still troubled by the absence of a stable metaphysical structure. The opening discussion focuses on the theoretical possibilities of the concept of “ontological incompleteness,” which is explored through the recent work by Catherine Keller, Face of the Deep, Elizabeth Grosz, Chaos, Territory, Art, and modern literary references, namely Borges and Beckett. The narratological nature of ontological incompleteness, then, is further discussed via Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou’s engagement with literature as a philosophical space or, as Badiou describes it, an “evental site” for metaphysical inquiry.
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Taylor, V.E. (2017). (Dis)Emergence to Spectral Subjectivity. In: Christianity, Plasticity, and Spectral Heritages. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60991-1_2
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