Neofinalism
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Neofinalism

  1. 326 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post–World War II French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of Neofinalism, considered by many to be Ruyer’s magnum opus, English-language readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy with science.

Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where science began, Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearly unclassifiable metaphysics and reactivated philosophy’s capacity to reflect on its canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life? What is the status of subjectivity? And how is freedom possible? Ha

Neofinalism offers a systematic and lucidly argued treatise that deploys the innovative concepts of self-survey, form, and absolute surface to shape a theory of the virtual and the transspatial. It also makes a compelling plea for a renewed appreciation of the creative activity that organizes spatiotemporal structures and makes possible the emergence of real beings in a dynamic universe.


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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction: Form and Phenomenon in Raymond Ruyer’s Philosophy
  4. 1. The Axiological Cogito
  5. 2. Description of Finalist Activity
  6. 3. Finalist Activity and Organic Life
  7. 4. The Contradictions of Biological Antifinalism
  8. 5. Finalist Activity and the Nervous System
  9. 6. The Brain and the Embryo
  10. 7. Signification of Equipotentiality
  11. 8. The Reciprocal Illusion of Incarnation and “Material” Existence
  12. 9. “Absolute Surfaces” and Absolute Domains of Survey
  13. 10. Absolute Domains and Bonds
  14. 11. Absolute Domains and Finality
  15. 12. The Region of the Transspatial and the Transindividual
  16. 13. The Levels of the Transspatial and Finalist Activity
  17. 14. The Beings of the Physical World and the Fibrous Structure of the Universe
  18. 15. The Neomaterialist Theories
  19. 16. Neo-Darwinism and Natural Selection
  20. 17. Neo-Darwinism and Genetics
  21. 18. Organicism and the Dynamism of Finality
  22. 19. Psycho-Lamarckism
  23. 20. Theology of Finality
  24. Summary
  25. Translator’s Afterword: The Idea of the End Alyosha Edlebi
  26. Notes
  27. Index