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Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (ed.), David Payne (ed.): Breaking Grounds
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Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback (ed.), David Payne (ed.)

Breaking Grounds
Thinking with Reiner Schürmann

Softcover, 360 pages

Date of publication: 22.09.2025

In recent years, academic interest in Reiner Schürmann’s philosophical work has grown significantly. His thought on “the principle of anarchy “ and on “broken hegemonies” has begun to draw greater attention and has inspired recent works by, among others, Catherine Malabou and Giorgio Agamben. In times of globalization and uni-dimensionalization, Schürmann’s deconstruction of the concept of the One, upon which western metaphysics and civilization has consolidated its power, is more than actual. It seems urgent. The present volume gathers, for the first time in an anthology, contributions from scholars from different parts of the world who have been studied and engaged with Schürmann’s thought over the years. The anthology is the outcome of the first international conference on Schürmann’s philosophical work held at Södertörn University, in 2021 in Stockholm, addressing the legacy of his thought on broken hegemonies.

With contributions by Claudia Baracchi, Peg Birmingham, Emmanuel Cattin, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Astrid Grelz, Francesco Guercio, Peter Hanly, Nomadic Joy, Krystof Kasprzak, Jérôme Lèbre, Reginald Lilly, Michael Marder, Alberto Martinengo, Ian Alexander Moore, David Payne, Ramona Rat, Elisabeth Rigal, Gustav Strandberg.

 

Content

  • 9–34

    Breaking Grounds: Thinking with Reiner Schürmann. Introduction

    Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, David Payne

  • 35–56

    On the “legislative diremption” as originary injunction

    Elisabeth Rigal

  • 57–80

    Shaky Grounds: On Reiner Schürmann’s ­Understanding of the Arché

    Francesco Guercio

  • 81–104

    The Analytic of Ultimates: A Traumatology

    Reginald Lilly

  • 105–118

    Phenomenology of Presencing and ­Hegemonic ­Phantasms

    Krystof Kasprzak

  • 119–142

    On the Rise and Fall of Natural Law in Schürmann’s Broken Hegemonies: For the Love of the Tragic ­Double Bind

    Ian Alexander Moore

  • 143–164

    Arendt and Schürmann on Natality: The ­Singularizing Event of Letting-Be (Gelassenheit)

    Peg Birmingham

  • 165–188

    Nomadic Joy: Reiner Schürmann, Meister Eckhart, Life ‘­without Why’

    Claudia Baracchi

  • 189–202

    Reiner Schürmann Friedrich Hölderlin

    Emmanuel Cattin

  • 203–214

    Translated from Silence – Notes on Singularity and Death

    Peter Hanly

  • 215–230

    From Anarchy to Politics: Reiner Schürmann and the Invisibility of the ­Foundation

    Alberto Martinengo

  • 231–268

    Appropriation at the Turning: Reading Schürmann reading Marx with Heidegger

    David Payne

  • 269–290

    Anarchic Beginnings

    Gustav Strandberg

  • 291–300

    Breaking the Chain of Being: Plotinian Vitalism in Schürmann and Jonas

    Astrid Grelz

  • 301–314

    Monstrous circle: A reading of Schürmann with Blanchot

    Ramona Rat

  • 315–328

    Topologies: from anarchy to irregularity

    Jérôme Lèbre

  • 329–338

    A Phoenix’s Tale

    Michael Marder

  • 339–352

    Thinking in Transition

    Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

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  • history of philosophy

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Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

is Full professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University (Sweden). Among her books and articles, she is the author in English of Time in Exile: In conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot and Clarice Lispector (2020), Philosophy Today, special issue of the journal History Today, co-ed. with Jean-Luc Nancy (2017), The End of the World, co-ed. w. Susanna Lindberg (2017), Dis-orientations: Philosophy, literature and the lost grounds of modernity, co-ed. with Tora Lane (2015), Being with the Without, co-ed w. Jean-Luc Nancy (2013). She is also the Brazilian translator of Heidegger’s Being and Time and other philosophical and poetical works.
Other texts by Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback for DIAPHANES

David Payne

David Payne completed his PhD in Political Theory at Essex University in 2012. He presently lectures in Rhetoric and Political Theory at Södertörn University, Sweden. He is also the university’s International Research Editor. Payne has written articles and book chapters on continental political philosophy, Marxism, revolutionary thought and Post-Marxism, as well as populism and the category of the people. In 2023, he co-edited a book entitled Populism and the People in Contemporary Critical Thought: Politics, Philosophy and Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2023). He is also presently working on a co-edited volume on the work of Ernesto Laclau, entitled Laclau, Populism and the Left (Routledge 2025).
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