Nicolas Schneider: “Reiner Schürmann on diremption: from the principle of anarchy to broken hegemonies”
05. Aug
05. Aug, 1:00 pm, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma
Round table "Reiner Schürmann’s Radical Phenomenology of Anarché" at XXV World Congress of Philosophy Rome "Philosophy Across Boundaries", August 1st to August 8th, La Sapienza University Rome
In his late work Broken Hegemonies, Schürmann distinguishes between the destitution of individual hegemonic referents that govern historical epochs and the diremption of this overarching structure of reference itself. The talk explores how this distinction is connected to Schürmann’s move away from his earlier investigation into ontological anarchy to one into ultimate double binds, from the principle of anarchy to broken hegemonies. Nicolas Schneider argues that this shift can be seen to involve a move from an anti-foundationalist to a ‘para-foundationalist’ perspective, from the destruction of hegemonic fantasms to a more complicated reckoning with a topological difference.