The Devolutionary Nature of Platoʼs Metaphysics Compared to Egyptian Religion, Proof of an Egyptian System of Mystery and of Grecian Origin of Speculative Philosophy [PDF]
The debate about the Egyptian origin of Grecian philosophy is waged so far on the ground of historicism and from the generalization of the concept of philosophy.
Kiatezua Lubanzadio Luyaluka
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La estrategia especulativa. Sobre la cuestión ontológica y meta-ontológica en la filosofía de Badiou
This paper explores the recent updating of Badiou's general philosophical proposal in the specific approach of a "speculative strategy" in his recent book The Immanence of Truths.
Jean-Paul Grasset B.
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Infinity Now! Speculative Philosophy and Addiction
This essay is an attempt to look at the existential phenomenon of being addicted from the perspective of speculative philosophy. The starting point is the description of Walter Benjamin’s narcotic experiences.
Maciej A. Sosnowski
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The Transformation of Scientific Political Philosophy into a Speculative Philosophy of History
The paper presents an analysis of the three stages of the development of political philosophy since the 17th century. The rise of modern political theory was marked by attempts to develop a philosophy along the lines of natural sciences.
Linas Jokubaitis
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A Speculative Poetics of Tammuz: Myth, Sentiment, and Modernism in Twentieth Century Arabic Poetry
In this paper, I attempt to read the poetic principle behind the Tammuzi movement of modern Arabic poetry through the lens of speculative poetics. While speculative-poetic accounts of modern poetry, such as those provided by Allen Grossman, blazed new ...
Hamad Al-Rayes
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The origins of early modern experimental philosophy [PDF]
This paper argues that early modern experimental philosophy emerged as the dominant member of a pair of methods in natural philosophy, the speculative versus the experimental, and that this pairing derives from an overarching distinction between ...
Anstey, Peter R., Vanzo, Alberto
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This paper deals with Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of the death drive from the perspective of speculative philosophy. For this purpose, three philosophers have been chosen: Nick Land, Ray Brassier, and Reza Negarestani.
Linartas Tuomas
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Pursuing Knowledge for Its Own Sake amidst a World of Poverty: Reconsidering Balogun on Philosophy’s Relevance [PDF]
In this article I critically discuss Professor Oladele Abiodun Balogun’s reflections on the proper final ends of doing philosophy and related sorts of abstract, speculative, or theoretical inquiry.
Metz, Thaddeus
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The Paradox of the Arche-fossil
In his influential After Finitude. An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency (2008), Quentin Meillassoux argues that *Correlationism* (an umbrella-term encompassing most varieties of Idealism) gives rise to an irresolvable paradox, called "the Paradox of
F.A. Muller
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J. N. Tetens’s ‘transcendental philosophy’ as a basic science and criti¬cal propaedeutics to metaphysics [PDF]
In his treatise On General Speculative Philosophy, J. N. Tetens sets out to justify the possibility and necessity of metaphysics as a general speculative science.
Sekundant S.
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