On Freedom - Trawny, Peter

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Résumé :
How do we challenge the structures of late capitalism if all possible media through which to do do is inescapably capitalist? This urgent political question is at the heart of Peter Trawny's major new work. With searing precision Trawny demonstrates how our world has become wholly determined by technology, capital, and the medium. In this world of the 'TCM', we universal subjects remain in a state of apathy that is temporarily punctuated, but also reinforced, by the phantasmatic dream of difference offered us by the 'Hollywood machine.' Our sole motivation is to gain money and the power it brings. The only meaningful difference in the world of the TCM universal is the difference between wealth and poverty. Freedom here is then the freedom to dispose of things (particularly technological objects) and to gain pleasure. It makes our relation to our surroundings essentially 'touristic,' and our relation to the earth an essentially exploitative one. The notion of personal or societal freedom has never been more controversial or, seemingly, more far from our grasp. While exploring in details the difficulties we face in our attempts to be free, Trawny builds an almost Utopian vision of how to break out of the mediums in which we operate and experience a new kind of freedom - both one of intimacy, and one through philosophy. An ambitious and lively yet completely rigorous work, this book offers a fascinating vision of how to live and live well....

Biographie:
Peter Trawny is Professor of Philosophy at Bergische University, Wuppertal, Germany. A specialist in phenomenological and hermeneutical political philosophy and aesthetics, he is the author of books on Heidegger, Hegel, Arendt, and Plato, and a co-editor of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe, or the complete works (vol. 35, 69.73, 90)....

Sommaire:

Preface

1. The Double Topology
1.1 The Poetic Topology
1.2 The Mathematico-Technological Topology

2. The Idea-Matter-Matrix

3. What Is:
3.1 Technology
3.2 Capital
3.3 Medium
3.4 The TCM Universal
3.4.1 The Scientific Universal
3.4.2 The Human Universal
3.4.3 The Natural Universal
3.4.4 The First Universal Hierarchy
3.4.5 The Second Universal Hierarchy: Quantity ? Quality
3.4.51 Excursus: Quantity and Time

4. The Universal and the Universal Topology

5. The Universal Subject
5.1 The Subject before the TCM Universal: Solipsism and Intimacy
5.2 The Subject within the TCM Universal: Indifference and Normality

6. Pragma-Politics

7. The Final Revolution

8. Anachronisms

9. The Double Topology and the Museum

10. Patho-topo-logy
10.1 The Patho-topo-logy of the Subject in the TCM Universal I
10.2 The Patho-topo-logy of the Subject in the TCM Universal II: Loss

11. The Differentiated Subject/Violence

12. Intimacy and Freedom

13. Philosophy as Impossibility

Note on the Wittgenstein Citation

Notes