The Apotheosis of Nullity

A Transhistorical Genealogy of Human Subjectivity

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• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781453918944
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophical Metaphysics

This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and capitalist regimes found in Deleuze and Guattari. Emphatic, acerbic, loquacious, impassioned, and marshaling a considerable array of theoretical and literary frameworks—from Schelling, Kantorowicz, Agamben, Hegel, Nietzsche, Badiou, Rosenzweig, Lévinas, Derrida, Blanchot, Kierkegaard, Marx, Lazzarato, Berardi, Žižek and Plotinus to Solzhenitsyn, Pessoa, Fuentes, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Beckett, Mann, Schreber, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, Sade, the Midrash and Kabbalah—and cavorting through vast expanses of world history, Bartosz ?ubczonok scrutinizes the maladies of pain, resentment, bad conscience, ideology, immiseration, torture, death, depression and suicide that have and continue to afflict humanity, and the possibilities of its vertiginous liberation. All is here: the auto-genesis of God, the Crucifixion, the Holocaust, September 11. The Apotheosis of Nullity is a searing indictment of all forms of oppression and despotism, inclusive of neoliberal capitalism, and far surpasses any usage of Deleuze and Guattari to date. It is relentless.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Prologue: Eternity
• Part One: The Primitive Regime
• Part Two: The Despotic Regime
• Part Three: The Passional Regime
• Part Four: The Capitalist Regime
• References
• Index