Superweak - Laurent De Sutter

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Résumé :
List of tables and figures

Introduction
Krat?

1. A brief encounter at Ichij -ji

2. The posture of Musashi

3. A surplus of strength

4. Critique and modernity

5. Reason: being right

6. Virality of critique

7. Five weaknesses

8. We are the detritus

9. Kant fatigue

10. Beyond

Book I
Phusis

11. What is critique?

12. Subjects with an attitude

13. Being, at the limit

14. Modes of life

15. For an ethics of the dandy

16. Incorporating the aesthetic

17. Giudizio and gusto

18. Logic of incarnation

19. The ordeal of judgment

20. Of defiance

21. The time of reflection

22. Two forms of reason

23. Haptics of merit

24. Mirror, mirror, on the wall

25. Epist?m? aisth?tik?

26. What matters

27. To judge well

28. The form of the limits

29. First antinomy of critique

30. The imperative of reason

31. How to overcome philosophy

32. History of intussusception

33. Hand to hand, body to body

34. Distrust...

35. The life and death of superheroes

36. Every human being is an artist

37. Punk philosophy

38. Beyond place

39. The precarious of all lands

40. Kryptonite hypothesis

41. Censure, my fine care

42. Tetsugaku and bimy?gaku

43. What is kokoro?

44. Critique against critique

45. Too disgusted

46. Portrait of No-Face

47. Chez Panisse

48. Coprology of critique

49. Dancing in your head

50. Proposals for a poetics of excarnation

Book II
Arch?

51. Architectonics of thought

52. A question of principles

53. The right to power

54. What comes from below

55. Cosmic anarchy

56. Surveilling the world

57. Now, dig!

58. One must make distinctions

59. Back to the basement one started from

60. For a decomposed architecture

61. A world of constraints

62. Of deconstruction

63. The shithouse stage of design

64. Functionalism of critique

65. To be and to be duty-bound

66. Phantoms against phantoms

67. Kindly pay in advance

68. Freemasonry & Co.

69. Spirit, are you there?

70. Just anything

71. Who's to blame

72. Ever more

73. Green cabbage and cabbage green, or, Six of one, half dozen of the other

74. Second antinomy of critique

75. Ergr?nden and Abgr?nden

76. Running out of steam

77. Ground zero

78. Factishes of all lands...

79. This is inadmissible

80. Elements of anarchic cosmology

81. To infinitize again

82. Adieu to philosophy

83. The weather takes a turn for the worse

84. Delete as appropriate

85. Method of the madness

86. Quite presumed

87. The Blade

88. Each time unique, the beginning of the world

89. Less than nothing, more than everything

90. Maximalist manifesto

Book III
Nomos

91. I think, therefore I judge

92. From dikazein to krinein

93. Putting order into effect

94. The institution of crisis

95. Politics of philosophy

96. Servants of the nomos

97. To death!

98. Cui bono

99. Inquisition everywhere, justice nowhere

100. On the guarantee

101. Green cabbage and cabbage green, or, Six of one, half dozen of the other (2)

102. Critique of prejudicial reason

103. The Treaty of Osnabr?ck

104. The origins of geometry

105. Force of rule

106. At the limit

107. Kant surveyor

108. Necessity of the ...

Biographie:
Laurent de Sutter?is Professor of Legal Theory at Vrije Universiteit Brussel....

Sommaire:
We have become superheroes. Nothing can resist us anymore: not persons, ideas, facts, realities, or beings. We owe our superhuman strength to a tool we have taken up that submits everything to the scrutiny of our judgment: critique. After its first formulation at the end of the sixteenth century, the project of critique spread from one sphere to another until it became almost universal: we have all of us been transformed by our equal capacity to judge, approve, and reject. If modernity is defined as the journey we have taken to move away from the myths and dogmas of the past, then critique, with its emphasis on reason and the autonomy of judgment, has been the lynchpin of modernity.

Today, however, the critical project shows signs of exhaustion. We are beginning to realize that being right is useless, now that everyone can lay claim to the same power as we can. The democratization of reason, proceeding alongside the development of critique through modernity, has produced a stalemate: for every judgment that we pronounce, there is another opposing one - with grounds as solid as our own, and the same right to assert itself. Rather than elevating us above the world, critique has mired us in an impasse of claim and counter-claim.

The age of critique is now over, argues Laurent de Sutter, and in its place we need to develop a postcritical form of thinking, one he calls superweak, a form of thinking based not on establishing grounds, pronouncing judgment, and determining duty, but on welcoming possibility, exploring what the world has to offer, and cultivating a vertiginous appreciation for moving within a world less grounded and less bounded by the terms of critical reason.