Bruno Bosteels Publishes New Book
Bosteels published a new book in Spanish, ¿Qué es la antifilosofía? with Prometeo Libros in Buenos Aires.
This book delves into the tradition of modern “antiphilosophy” among the likes of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Lacan. All these thinkers pretend to take down and outflank the philosopher’s pursuit of truth by claiming access to an invaluable element of experience about which philosophers traditionally want to know nothing whatsoever. A phrase from Jorge Luis Borges’s early essay “History of Eternity,” in this sense, could be applied to each of the aforementioned thinkers: “We know that he was an enemy of the philosophers. To appropriate one of their weapons and turn it against them must have caused in him a bellicose pleasure.” In an ongoing dialogue with the French thinker Alain Badiou, this book then seeks to formalize what is at stake in this mimetic rivalry between philosophers and antiphilosophers, before asking whether there is not also an antiphilosophical tendency constantly at work in Badiou’s own thought.
