This collection assembles key essays of Reiner Schürmann centering on the concepts of anarchy and the singularization to come. Setting out from the question of the status of practical philosophy at the end of metaphysics, these texts track the crucial role of Schürmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault. Drawing on his highly original reading of the philosophical tradition, Schürmann traces the status of identity and difference in Foucault's conception of history to develop a radical phenomenological understanding of anarchy and poses the question of the fate of philosophy after the critique of the subject. Besides making Schürmann's readings of Foucault available, the essay collection offers a concise and accessible introduction to Schürmann's thought and documents a shift in his thinking during the 1980s. Taken together, these pivotal essays introduce the reader to the entirety of Schürmann's most urgent concerns and assemble the conceptual tools for the project of his last book, Broken Hegemonies. Book jacket.
Tomorrow the Manifold : Essays on Foucault, Anarchy, and the Singularization to Come