Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where science began,post-WWII French philosopher Raymond Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearlyunclassifiable metaphysics and reactivated philosophy's capacity to speculateon its canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life? Whatis the status of subjectivity? And how is freedom possible?
Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where science began,post-WWII French philosopher Raymond Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearlyunclassifiable metaphysics and reactivated philosophy's capacity to speculateon its canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life? Whatis the status of subjectivity? And how is freedom possible?
Raymond Ruyer (1902–1987) was a professor of philosophy at the UniversitÉ de Nancy. He was the author of over twenty books in French, including Elements of Psychobiology, The Genesis of Living Forms, and Cybernetics and the Origin of Information. Alyosha Edlebi is the translator of Theory of Identities by FranÇois Laruelle and Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction by Quentin Meillassoux Mark B. N. Hansen is professor of literature at Duke University.
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Contents Introduction: Form and Phenomenon in Raymond Ruyer's Philosophy Mark B. N. Hansen 1. The Axiological Cogito 2. Description of Finalist Activity 3. Finalist Activity and Organic Life 4. The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism 5. Finalist Activity and the Nervous System 6. The Brain and the Embryo 7. Signification of Equipotentiality 8. The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and “Material” Existence 9. “Absolute Surfaces” and Absolute Domains of Survey 10. Absolute Domains and Bonds 11. Absolute Domains and Finality 12. The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual 13. The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity 14. The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe 15. The Neo-Materialist Theories 16. Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection 17. Neo-Darwinism and Genetics 18. Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality 19. Psycho-Lamarckism 20. Theology of Finality Summary Translator's Afterword: The Ends of Thought Alyosha Edlebi Notes Index
Contents Introduction: Form and Phenomenon in Raymond Ruyer's Philosophy Mark B. N. Hansen 1. The Axiological Cogito 2. Description of Finalist Activity 3. Finalist Activity and Organic Life 4. The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism 5. Finalist Activity and the Nervous System 6. The Brain and the Embryo 7. Signification of Equipotentiality 8. The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and “Material” Existence 9. “Absolute Surfaces” and Absolute Domains of Survey 10. Absolute Domains and Bonds 11. Absolute Domains and Finality 12. The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual 13. The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity 14. The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe 15. The Neo-Materialist Theories 16. Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection 17. Neo-Darwinism and Genetics 18. Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality 19. Psycho-Lamarckism 20. Theology of Finality Summary Translator's Afterword: The Ends of Thought Alyosha Edlebi Notes Index
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