THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION AN ESSAY IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXPIRATION OR THEORY IN THE ERA OF SOPHISTICATED MINDLESSNESS

THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION AN ESSAY IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF EXPIRATION OR THEORY IN THE ERA OF SOPHISTICATED MINDLESSNESS

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE: TWO NOTES

NOTE 1: THE ABSENT PRESENCE

NOTE 2: CRITICISM AND JUDGMENTALNESS

INTRODUCTION: FRACTAL VERSUS FRAGMENT

Chapter 1 A CONCLUSION

Chapter 2 FROM PROTO-MODERNITY TO PSEUDO-MODERNITY: KANT AND HIS DESCENDANTS

TOO MUCH, TOO SOON (SCHOPENHAUER)

PHENOMENAL-PHENOMENOLOGICAL TURN (HEGEL AND HUSSERL)

PHENOMENOLOGY OF DECEPTION (MERLEAU-PONTY AND VIRILIO)

Chapter 3 THE POLITICS OF RE-PRESENTATION. A COLLECTION OF FRACTALS

PHILOSOPHY IN THE ERA OF SOPHISTICATED MEANINGLESSNESS

Chapter 4 EPILOGUE OR AFTER THE END

Chapter 5 FROM SOPHISTICATED MEANINGLESSNESS TO SOPHISTICATED PRIMITIVISM

THE ORIENT DREAMING OF THE OCCIDENT, THE OCCIDENT DREAMING OF THE ORIENT

THE PRESENT OF OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Chapter 6 THE STATE OF MINDLESSNESS. THE RISE OF THE PSEUDO-MODERN WORLD

RECURRENCE AND DOMINATION OF THE NON-WORLD

NARROW-MINDED AND IRRESPONSIBLE

SOCIOPATHY AND IDIOCY

INCONSISTENCY, DOUBLE STANDARD, HYPOCRISY

HATRED, REACTION, AND REVENGE

INFERIORITY COMPLEX

Chapter 7 IDEOLOGIES OF THE NON-WORLD. THE POST-COLONIAL AND THE SUBALTERN

OPTIONAL APPENDIX: THE ORACLES SPEAK! (FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEANS)

INDEX

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