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"If philosophy begins in a certain perplexity towards the world, then perhaps perplexity is resolved in life. However, in philosophy, "life" is never a simple affair. More often than not, life is understood to be something that, though it is not "lived" exclusively by human beings, is however, "thought" exclusively by human beings."
A clear and insensibly tormenting conceptual observation of the majestic intolerability of life as philosophical idea. Suggested background listening: Lustmord.
After Life is, as the table of contents and page 241 show, an examination of three competing interpretations of life. There is, first of all, superlative life as outlined by Pseudo-Dionysius and Eriugena; secondly, there is univocal life as found in Scotus and Spinoza; and, finally, there is Eiugena's and Cusa's pantheistic life. In each case, Thacker argues, life is defined by something other than itself: "[e]very ontology of "life" thinks of life in terms of something-other-than-life" (x).In t...
Could have been better edited for flow and clarity but offers an excellent orientation to the conceptual issues around transcendence and immanence as they were expressed through the Western medieval period into the present.
