Nicolas Schneider: “Reiner Schürmann on diremption: from the principle of anarchy to broken hegemonies”
05. Aug.
05. Aug, 13:00 Uhr, La Sapienza Universität Rom, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rom
Round table "Reiner Schürmann’s Radical Phenomenology of Anarché" beim XXV. Weltkongress für Philosophie "Philosophy Across Boundaries", 1.- 8. August 2024, La Sapienza Universität Rom
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.