Name: Philosophy as Experimentation, Dissidence and Heterogeneity
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Philosophy as Experimentation, Dissidence and Heterogeneity

Edited By: José Miranda Justo, Elisabete M. de Sousa, Fernando M. F. Silva

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This collection of essays explores the role of experimentation, dissidence, and heterogeneity in philosophy. Critiquing monolithic tendencies, it traces the influence of marginal thinkers from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Deleuze, Foucault, and Benjamin.

Contemporary philosophical research interconnects classical domains of philosophy, the arts, literature and social sciences. This collection of essays explores the operational role of experimentation, dissidence and heterogeneity in this process. It offers fundaments for the criticism of monolithical tendencies often put forward under the banner of the ‘Speculative Turn’ or New Realism, by means of exploring the contribution and influence of authors such as J. G. Hamann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Guy Debord. These philosophers, historically placed within the margins of the philosophical mainstream, were decisive in the emergence of the philosophical thought and practices of Deleuze, Wittgenstein and Bataille, as shown here. The reader will also find re-evaluations of the contributions of Vico, Spinoza or Kant to posterity, next to new readings of authors like Foucault, Hadot, Benjamin and Adorno with regards to their significant experimental and dissident positions.

José Miranda Justo received his PhD from the University of Lisbon in 1990, and is a retired Associate Professor at the same institution. During his career, he directed three international projects funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He publishes regularly on various domains of philosophy and German studies.

Elisabete M. de Sousa is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon. Her research covers philosophy of music and literature focusing on Kierkegaard, Mann, Wagner, Berlioz, Schumann and Liszt. She has translated Kierkegaard and Wollstonecraft, and is the author of over 50 articles and book chapters.

Fernando M. F. Silva is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Centre for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon. He is the co-founder and member of the Nucleus for Kantian and Idealistic Studies, and co-editor of the journal Estudos Kantianos. He has published numerous articles on, and translations of, Kant’s anthropology and aesthetics, as well as work on Novalis, Fichte, and Hölderlin, among others.

José Miranda Justo, Giuseppe Moro, Gualtiero Lorini, Monalisa Lauro, Saulo Araujo, Carson Webb, Oscar Oubiña, Marcio Paula, Victoria Manuel, Sven Gellens, Laura Langone, Tiago Clariano, Bartholomew Ryan, Nélio Conceição, Alexandra Fortes, Mario Spezzapria, Elisabetta Basso, Carlos Joao Correia, Henrique Ribeiro, Paulo Lima, Gianfranco Ferraro, Marta Faustino, José Martins, Nuno Fonseca, Maria Molder, Alison Assiter, Maria Binetti, Laura Llevadot, João Eça, Tomás Castro, Elisabete M. de Sousa, Fernando M. F. Silva