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| author | Revista, Zen PHILOSOPHY, 10 |
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| contents | This paper explores the multifaceted ways in which continental philosophy challenges the notion of a pre-given, independently existing reality. Through a detailed examination of key thinkers and movements, it investigates how the concepts of contingency and critique serve as indispensable tools for understanding reality not as a static, discoverable entity, but as an ongoing process of production and negotiation. From Kant's transcendental turn to the genealogies of Nietzsche and Foucault, the deconstructions of Derrida, and the materialist approaches of Deleuze and Guattari, continental thought consistently reveals the historical, linguistic, and power-laden conditions that shape what counts as real. We argue that by foregrounding the non-necessary nature of our conceptual schemes, social structures, and even subjective experience, these philosophies compel us to critically interrogate the implicit assumptions that underpin our understanding of the world. This necessitates a shift from a passive reception of the "given" to an active engagement with the processes through which reality is continuously constituted, offering profound implications for epistemology, ontology, and political practice. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Beyond the Given: Contingency, Critique, and the Production of Reality in Continental Thought Revista, Zen PHILOSOPHY, 10 This paper explores the multifaceted ways in which continental philosophy challenges the notion of a pre-given, independently existing reality. Through a detailed examination of key thinkers and movements, it investigates how the concepts of contingency and critique serve as indispensable tools for understanding reality not as a static, discoverable entity, but as an ongoing process of production and negotiation. From Kant's transcendental turn to the genealogies of Nietzsche and Foucault, the deconstructions of Derrida, and the materialist approaches of Deleuze and Guattari, continental thought consistently reveals the historical, linguistic, and power-laden conditions that shape what counts as real. We argue that by foregrounding the non-necessary nature of our conceptual schemes, social structures, and even subjective experience, these philosophies compel us to critically interrogate the implicit assumptions that underpin our understanding of the world. This necessitates a shift from a passive reception of the "given" to an active engagement with the processes through which reality is continuously constituted, offering profound implications for epistemology, ontology, and political practice. |
| title | Beyond the Given: Contingency, Critique, and the Production of Reality in Continental Thought |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17758436 |