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Unworldliness: A Pathology of Humankind (On Günther Anders’s Negative Anthropology)
Hunter Bolin
It can be difficult to see what is lost when loss is experienced. Freud described melancholia as a condition in which what is lost, beyond any particular object, is ultimately the subject’s relation to the world, which he then describes as a topographical withdrawal back into the self and narcissism, a state he called melancholia. In the process, the relation to the external world is severely compromised. But, Anders asked, could it be possible to start from the opposite premise—that the relationship to the world is never guaranteed a priori?
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 9, 2024
Category
Philosophy, Anthropology & Ethnography, War & Conflict
Subjects
Germany, Nuclear War, Ontology , Negative Anthropology series
e-flux Notes
Posted: July 27, 2023
Category
Marxism
Subjects
Revolution, Manifestos