The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) : : Beyond Continental Philosophy / / Dorothea Olkowski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Olkowski, Dorothea,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies : PLAT
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

The Universal (In the realm of the sensible): Beyond Continental Philosophy proposes a radical, new philosophical system that moves from ontology to ethics. Dorothea Olkowski develops the concept of an ontological unconscious, a connection arising from our sensible relation to the world that conditions encounters with the environment and with others. This fundamental ontology rethinks the space-time relations opened by Irigaray’s notion of the ‘interval,’ Bergson’s ‘recollection,’ Merleau-Ponty’s idea of the ‘flesh’ and Deleuze’s ‘plane of immanence’. Writing in an original style, inspired by literature and the arts, Olkowski locates a ‘realm of the senses’, a field of vulnerability, felt as pleasures and pains. This presents an aesthetic sense of something universal to all human kind, as well as to the organic and inorganic world.In addition to this proposal for a wider ontology, the relation between traditional ontologies and politics is examined as a means of opening politics beyond a no exit or limit cycle. Instead a multiplicity of self-organized, emergent perspectives emerges, eliminating the need for the connections, conjunctions, and disjunctions of the Kantian paradigm at work in contemporary continental philosophy.This is a timely, controversial and important book that contributes enormously to the study of Deleuze and Continental Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Philosophy and the Limits of Difference -- 2. ‘A Place of Love and Mystery’ -- 3. ‘Love and Hatred’ -- 4. ‘Under Western Eyes’ -- 5. Passive Restraint -- 6. In the Realm of the Sensible -- Bibliography -- Index