The Soul Might Well Have Been Dreamed by Cicadas: Inger Christensen’s Speculative Realism

  • Niels Wilde

Аннотация

In this paper, I reconstruct Inger Christensen’s poetical thinking in a dialogue with the speculative turn in contemporary continental philosophy. Christensen’s poetry has been philosophically interpreted in line with the Romantic tradition. However, I argue that by reframing the context to present day debates in continental metaphysics, Christensen’s position can provide the building blocks for a new hybrid model —an object-oriented philosophy of nature. First, the relation between language as a transcendental semiotic system and reality as a mind-independent realm is addressed not as a correlation between humans and world but as a companionship between two aspects of nature itself. Second, Christensen advocates a generic model of becoming where the engine is fueled by the irreducible “state of secrecy” that generates beings, forces, events on a flat ontological and political plane without ever itself being revealed.

Биография автора

Niels Wilde

Research Assistant
Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas,
Aarhus University,
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 7, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
E-mail: filnwl@cas.au.dk

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Опубликован
2021-07-29
Как цитировать
Wilde, N. (2021). The Soul Might Well Have Been Dreamed by Cicadas: Inger Christensen’s Speculative Realism. Stasis, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.33280/2310-3817-21-11-1-112-130
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