Worldlessness after heidegger, Vegso, Associate Professor Of English Roland (university Of Nebraska-lincoln)

• Provides a provocative rereading of post-WWII history of continental philosophy
• Advocates worldlessness as a positive value
• Situates the argument among the work of Markus Gabriel, Levi Bryant and Timothy Morton
• Sets out an innovative agenda for potential applications of the concept of worldlessness in practical philosophy, aesthetics, ethics and political philosophy

Roland V gső opens up a new debate in favour of abandoning the very idea of the world in both philosophy and politics. Opening with a reconsideration of the Heideggerian critique of worldlessness, he goes on to trace the overlooked history of this argument in the works of Hannah Arendt, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou.

This critical genealogy shows that the post-Heideggerian critique of the phenomenological tradition remained limited by its unquestioning investment in the category of the world. As a way out of this historical predicament, V gs encourages us to create affirmative definitions of worldlessness.