In this episode of Invasive Thoughts, we speak with Miguel de Beistegui (ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra) about crisis as one of the basic conditions of contemporary life. Our present is labelled with crises of almost every kind: financial, ecological, democratic, geopolitical, migratory, public-health, economic, and technological. Moving from the financial crisis of 2008 and the COVID pandemic of 2020 to Heidegger, Mallarmé, neoliberalism, and non-Western thought, we ask what these crises reveal about the world we inhabit and the forms of thinking still prevalent among us. Beistegui invites us to think more deeply about what it means to live and act when the shared and fragile ground of our lives—the Earth itself, or Gaia—has entered into crisis.
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RECOMMENDED READING
Selected Publications:
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- Philosophy and Tragedy (ed. with Simon Sparks), Routledge, 2000
- Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, Indiana University Press, 2003
- Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology, Indiana University Press, 2004
- The New Heidegger, Continuum, 2005
- Jouissance de Proust: Pour une esthétique de la métaphore, encre marine, 2007. Translated in English as Proust as Philosopher: The Art of Metaphor, Routledge, 2012
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- Éloge de Chillida/In Praise of Chillida, Gourcuff/Gradenigo, 2011
- Aesthetics After Metaphysics: From Mimesis to Metaphor, Routledge, 2012
- The Care of Life: Transdisciplinary Perspectives in Bioethics and Biopolitics (ed. with G. Bianco and M. Gracieuse), Rowman and Littlefield, 2014
- The Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject, Chicago University Press, 2018