📗 Libro en inglés ATOPIAS

This book offers a manifesto for a radical existentialism aiming to regenerate the place of the outside that contemporary theory underestimates Neyrat calls this outside atopia not utopia a dreamt place out of the world where everything would be perfect but atopia the internal outside that is at the core of every being Atopia is neither an object that an object oriented ontology would be able to formalize nor the matter that new materialisms could identify Atopia is what constitutes the existence of any object or subject its singularity or more precisely its eccentricity Etymologically to exist means to be outside and the book argues that every entity is outside thrown in the world wandering without any ontological anchor In this regard a radicalized existentialism does not privilege human beings as Sartre and Heidegger did but considers existence as a universal condition that concerns every being It is important to offer a radical existentialism because the current denial of the outside is politically and aesthetically damaging Only an atopian philosophy a bizarre extravagant heretic philosophy can care for our fear of the outside For therapeutic element a radical existentialism favors everything that challenges the compact immanenc