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Although the French Hellenist and sinologist François Jullien has published more than thirty books, half of which have been translated into English, he remains much less known in the English-language world than many of his fellow "French philosophers". This may be due to his work being perceived as within the limits of sinology. This book attempts to rectify this, highlighting Jullien's work at the intersection of Chinese and Western thought and drawing out the "unthought" in both traditions of thinking. This "unthought" can be seen as what conditions our thought, and opens it up onto new ways of thinking and understanding. The notion of "unthought" is at the core of Jullien's methodology, operating in what he calls the "divergence of the in-between". Written in an engaging style, Arne De Boever offers an accessible introduction to François Jullien's work that emphatically challenges some of the core assumptions of Western reasoning

Does sovereignty have a future in the 21st century?. Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and explode the forms of our political future.Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and explode the forms of our political future

"Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence in America and around the Anglophone world, having been of great importance in France for many years. This first collection of essays, by renowned critics and philosophers, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implications of his work in numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem."--Page 4 of cover

Résumé Que se passe-t-il si l'on considère le mythe de Prométhée à partir de la notion de « mythe interrompu » de Jean-Luc Nancy ? Si les mythes sont habituellement racontés autour du feu, ce mythe à propos du vol du feu expliquerait les origines de sa propre narration – n'expliquant rien d'autre que lui-même. Dès lors, comme Kafka le savait déjà, le mythe serait interrompu par la matérialité allégorique du roc sur lequel Prométhée est attaché, et autour duquel émergent de nouvelles conceptualisations de l'humain, de la communauté et du care .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Editors' Introduction: Simondon, Finally -- Chapter 1 Technical Mentality -- Explications -- Chapter 2 'Technical Mentality' Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 3 Identity and Individuation: Some Feminist Reflections -- Chapter 4 Crystals and Membranes: Individuation and Temporality -- Implications -- Chapter 5 The Question of Anxiety in Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 6 Infra-Psychic Individualization: Transductive Connections and the Genesis of Living Techniques -- Chapter 7 'Du mort qui saisit le vif ': Simondonian Ontology Today -- Chapter 8 The Aesthetics of Gilbert Simondon: Anticipation of the Contemporary Aesthetic Experience -- Resonances -- Chapter 9 Gilles Deleuze, a Reader of Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 10 Science and Ontology: From Merleau- Ponty's 'Reduction' to Simondon's 'Transduction' -- Chapter 11 The Question of the Individual in Georges Canguilhem and Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 12 The Theatre of Individuation: Phase- Shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger -- Glossary: Fifty Key Terms in the Works of Gilbert Simondon -- Notes on Contributors -- Index