Dearth Volume 1

<p><b>Proposing a radical reconceptualization of deconstruction and nothingness</b> <br/> <br/> The first of two volumes exploring Jacques Derrida's prefiguration of speculative realism, <i>The Nothing and Nothingness </i>examines the transcendental naturalism of Ray Brassier and Iain Hamilton Grant and the speculative materialism of Quentin Meillassoux. Philippe Lynes proposes nothing less than a radical reconceptualization of deconstruction as a call to bear witness to nothingness: let the earth be the earth, let nature be nature, and leave them to their reality, secrecy, and withdrawal without us. <br/> <br/> <i>Dearth: Deconstruction After Speculative Realism</i> argues that Derrida's seminars on Martin Heidegger and Maurice Blanchot, <i>La Chose</i> (The Thing), anticipated many of the philosophical, literary, and aesthetic questions animating speculative realism today: an anti-anthropocentric critique of Kantian correlationism an overcoming of the apocalyptic nihilism of extinction through a deeper, affirmative habituation to nothingness and poignant reflections on the literary and poetic aspects of living and dying in impossible worlds. His is an anti-correlationist plea that resounds now more urgently than ever.</p>