1st Edition

Philosophy Across Borders Perspectives from Contemporary Theory

Edited By Emma Ingala, Gavin Rae Copyright 2025
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

This book brings into conversation geographically diverse theorists to question the meaning, purpose, and place of conceptual borders in philosophy. It shows how contemporary theory is constituted by a dynamic practice in which the boundaries created to define it are simultaneously overcome in their establishment. Philosophy has often taken itself to be distinguished from and superior to... Read more

Introduction: Philosophy Across Borders Emma Ingala and Gavin Rae

Part I: Critique

1. Beyond Hope: The Borders Between Theoretical and Practical Philosophy Morganna Lambeth

2. The Metaphysics Beneath a Limit: Criticism from Contemporary Liminal Theory Gonzalo Núñez Erices

3. Philosophy without Borders, or the Permanence of Questioning Tamara Caraus

Part II: Crossing Cultures

4. Thinking “Orientally”: Nietzsche and Indian Philosophy Emma Syea

5. Adorno and the Work of the Spirit: Modernism in Aesthetic Terms William D. Melaney

Part III: Ethics

6. Against the Intolerable: On Limits, Boundaries, and Transgression Guilel Treiber

7. Foucault, Feminism, and the Limits of Experience Liesbeth Schoonheim

8. Where Are We When We Think From Within the Body? Adriana Zaharijević

Part IV: Politics

9. No Accounting for Taste: Aesthesis on the Borders of Philosophy Cillian Ó Fathaigh

10. Crossing Lines Between Deleuze and Négritude: A Vitalist Ontology of Post-Colonial War Machines Sara Raimondi and Hannah Richter

Biography

Emma Ingala is Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Her recent publications include coediting the volumes Transformation in Contemporary French Theory (forthcoming) and Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (Routledge, 2021).

Gavin Rae is Associate Professor in the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. His most recent publications include Questioning Sexuality: From Psychoanalysis to Gender Theory and Beyond (2024) and Poststructuralist Agency (2020).