Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
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From the Philosophy of Theatre to Performance Philosophy: Laruelle, Badiou and the Equality of Thought
Get PDFThis article draws from François Laruelle\u27s non-standard philosophy to locate gestures of philosophical "authority" or \u27sufficiency" within recent work in the philosophy of theatre - including material from contemporary Anglo-American philosophical aesthetics, and texts by Alain Badiou, such as In Praise of Theatre (2015). Whilst Badiou initially appears magnanimous in relation to theatre\u27s own thinking - famously describing theatre as "an event of thought" that "directly produces ideas" (Badiou 2005: 72) - I argue that this very benevolence, from a Laruellean perspective, constitutes another form of philosophical authoritarianism. In contrast, I indicate some affinities between Laruelle\u27s non-standard aesthetics and the emerging field of Performance Philosophy - one aim of which, as distinct from the philosophy of theatre, would be to allow performance to qualitatively extend our concepts of thinking and/or to be attentive to the ways in which performance has already provided new forms of philosophy
Peace between Trotskyism and Maoism: Non-Maoism and Double Superposition
Get PDFNon-Philosophy is a rigorous practice that can have useful applications for academic researchers and political activists alike. Utilizing its methods and frameworks, it is possible to bring Peace into the endless War of sectarian tendencies in which "the Left" is mired. In the following paper, we apply the technique of Non-Philosophy to Josh Moufawad-Paul\u27s pamphlet "Maoism or Trotskyism," taking it as an instance of occasional material to be transformed. An important aspect of this analysis is a syntactical deployment of Non-Philosophy not always found in non-philosophical texts: here our dualysis proceeds by double (and not only single) superposition. We effectuate two non-philosophical clones, using the first in order to recursively effectuate a second. First, we transform Trotskyism by isolating its philosophical and auto-positional structure, then we use this radicalized Trotskyism in order to transform Moufawad-Paul\u27s Maoist polemic. The result is a radicalized Maoism-Trotskyism opening the way towards a productive and integrative Peace between Trotskyism and Maoism.
Subjectivité et projet. La critique patočkienne du concept heideggérien de "projet de possibilités"
Get PDFSubjectivity and Project. Patočka\u27s critique of Heidegger\u27s concept "project of possibilities" The purpose of this article is to lay out the way the main aspects of Patočka\u27s critical reading of Heidegger\u27s fundamental ontology. More precisely, I intend to restate the central arguments Patočka raised against Heidegger\u27s characterization of "understanding" (Verstehen) as a "project". In the first part, I will single out Patočka\u27s project of an "asubjective phenomenology" by distinguishing it from another asubjective project (that of Aristotle) and from the subjective phenomenology. In the second part, I will examine some central theses Heidegger puts forth in §31 of Being and Time in order to show the inescapable difficulties they bring about. In the final part, I will describe the tenets around which Patočka\u27s critical reading of Heidegger revolves. I will explore the two directions of this critique that correspond to the double orientation of asubjective phenomenology: a) on the one hand, the priority of the phenomenal field with regard to any subjective sense-bestowal; b) the importance of the phenomenon of corporeity for an accurate apprehension of subjectivity
Jan Patočka\u27s Reversal of Dostoevsky and Charter 77
No full textJan Patočka became politically active for the first time as a spokesperson of the dissident movement Charter 77. In this capacity he wrote several essays, the first of which, entitled "On the Matters of The Plastic People of the Universe and DG 307", I interpret as the explanation and justification of his turn toward political engagement. The following article is a reading of Patočka\u27s essay that pays particular attention to a peculiar formal feature of the essay – namely that it\u27s presented as a reversal of Dostoevsky\u27s short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". In reversing this story, Patočka shows us the two basic ways of human life and explains his political engagement as an action taken on behalf of the properly human way of life, which he calls "life in truth" or "the responsible life". The purpose of his political engagement thus wasn\u27t defending human rights, but defending life in truth, to which human rights provide suitable conditions. "On the Matters…" also presents Patočka\u27s assessment of the Communist regime with clarity and severity not seen elsewhere in his writings, and shows a shift in his views of youth and youthful rebellion
Die Funktion der Literatur in der Gesellschaft (1968)
Get PDFA Text from Jan Patočka\u27s Archive in Vienna on "The function of the literature in society" (1968), translated from Czech into German by Ludger Hagedorn
On the Matters of The Plastic People of the Universe and DG 307
Get PDFAn essay of Jan Patočka on Dostoevsky\u27s short story "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"
The Experiment of Night: Jan Patočka on War, and a Christianity to Come
Get PDFIn the wake of the present-day crises, social conflicts and growing divisions, Patočka\u27s reflections on war and totalitarianism appear abiding. Moreover, the enigmatic language, which Patočka uses, especially in his late Heretical Essays, sounds provoking and paradoxical. This article elaborates on the hypothesis that Patočka\u27s reflections provide us with something more than a historical analysis interpreting the wars of the 20th century, and the 20th century as a war. I will argue that Patočka finds an intrinsic link between modernity, as a particular mode of being, and war and totalitarianism as unavoidable consequences of such a mode of being. To describe this situation, Patočka puts forth the dialectic of the light of day and the darkness of night. Paradoxically, in a somewhat mystical turn, Patočka gives preference to the night as the driving force of transgressing modern logic and the defective mode of modern being which throws crowds to the hell-fire of modern warfare. Against this background, this paper will present an innovative reading of Patočka\u27s reflections as a specific search for an adequate spiritual response to the discontents of modernity. I will suggest that the trajectory of Patočka\u27s thought can be read through the lens of a particular philosophy of religion, even though Patočka never elaborated on this avenue explicitly. Thus, I will propose that Patočka\u27s thought opens up the possibility of reconsidering a heretical idea of Christianity that is coming after Christianity
Le sens-sans-signe: Pour une éthique de la création
Get PDFThe meaning-without-sign: For an ethics of creationThe following article is the result of a collaboration between a painter and a woman philosopher. They worked previously on an experimental documentary film about objects and art objects, which was realized at Palais de Tokyo. The painter had illustrated in black and white fictions of philosophy, written during a festival on lost films organized by UNdocumenta in South Korea, and then he made photographs of oil paintings of the English translation. This article about painting and philosophical ethics is their first common text. It aims to show that there is no interdiscipline or passage known between the philosophical work and the painting. The philosopher can not imitate the recognition of the painter nor the painter to repair the philosophical non-encounter. The question then is: What can ethics in this non-symmetrical space? Rather than being a product of philosophy, it is what organizes this space between recognition and non-encounter. It is an ethics for philosophy, rather than the other way around. Ethics force to greet the other philosophers without the grudge of the loss necessary to the invention and allows the painter to know the distances that make him feel the recognition. This ethical space is unknown and can not be covered by the artist\u27s philosophy of access or pre-nomination by indexes. Ethics is this unknown, i.e. it is a sense-without-sign, it is without rules-said but process of indexation and acceptance of the loss
La "fête mobile" de la non-philosophie
Get PDFThe "moveable feast" of non-philosophy(Abstract) The editorial aims to unveil the attracting force of Laruelle\u27s non-philosophy for scholars from different disciplines and artists. It shows how a new "democratic order of thinking" permits non-philosophy to enclose domains that have long been considered as opposites: philosophy, science, religion and the arts. Conceived as parameters of thought of the same right and without privileges, these variables can be superposed in a process of creative invention. The performative force of non-standard thinking, which can take different forms of philo-fiction, science fiction, art fiction, Christo-Fiction etc., dismantles the decisional gestures and the sufficiency claims of philosophy, science and religion, and thus permits a regeneration as well as a choral orchestration in a "minimalistic symphony". In this sense, non-philosophy invites us every day to the "movable feast", that it is.