Being Up For Grabs
Subtitle: On Speculative Anarcheology
By: Hilan Bensusan
Edition: 1st edition
Series: New Metaphysics
Publisher: Open Humanities Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781785420283
Copyright date: 2016
Description: This is a book on the metaphysics of contingency. It looks at what could be otherwise, at what lacks the weight of necessity, at what is up for grabs. Aristotle maintained that there could be no knowledge of the impermanent. Since then, metaphysics has endeavored to find out what really is permanent, non-accidental and resilient – substances that endure, substrata underneath different qualities, fixed principles, necessary connections. In contrast, Bensusan draws on the growing philosophical attention to the contingent. It explores how we can counter Aristotle and develop a metaphysics of what ain’t necessarily so. The endeavor renegotiates the accepted familiarity between ontology and the search for an arché. Being Up For Grabs explores this in connection to what is up in the air, what is out of the blue and what is up for grabs. It is a metaphysical exercise that dialogues with several philosophical resources. It is also a speculative and anarcheological effort, as it tries to reach a broad and encompassing view of the sensible world while conceiving it as lacking any arché. The book emerges as an exercise in speculative anarcheology.
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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 11; label: 1.
title: Being up for grabs – the preliminaries
pagenum: 15; label: 2.
title: Anarcheologies
pagenum: 61; label: 3.
title: Fragments
pagenum: 95; label: 4.
title: Doubts
pagenum: 137; label: 5.
title: Rhythms
pagenum: 163; label: 6.
title: Contingency and its galaxies
pagenum: 195; title: Notes
pagenum: 209; title: References
pagenum: 223