Speculative Empiricism, Nature and the Question of Predatory Abstractions: A Conversation with Didier Debaise
| Autor: | Didier Debaise, Thomas P. Keating |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Filosofi
Philosophie de la nature History Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Event (philosophy) Whitehead Stengers war machine Métaphysique Continental philosophy Conversation William James media_common abstractions General Social Sciences Deleuze Alfred North Whitehead Philosophie Epistemology Philosophy Haraway pluralistic universe Key (cryptography) speculative philosophy universal mannerism Empiricism Philosophie générale Philosophie des sciences |
| Zdroj: | Theory, culture & society, 0 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3616 0263-2764 |
| Popis: | In conversation with Didier Debaise, this piece thinks transversally across Nature as Event (2017a) and Speculative Empiricism (2017b) to explore some of the key stakes in his philosophy, namely: the relationship between the task of thinking a speculative empiricism and the problem of the bifurcation of nature. Engaging with the themes of nature, abstraction, dualism, pragmatism, and the role of stories in dramatizing our sensitivity to the world, the conversation develops Debaise’s contribution to theorising alternative modes of knowledge and experience capable of admitting those infra-sensible, inaudible, or imperceptible qualities of events. Distinctly, Debaise introduces here the problem of ‘predatory abstractions’ as one way to understand the problem of bifurcation. Ethically, the question of predatory abstractions makes new demands on the social sciences: to story new abstractions capable of deepening our experience of nature. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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