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Call for Publications

Theme: Nihilism Seen Through the Lens of Post-Continental Philosophy
Publication: Open Philosophy
Date: Topical Issue
Deadline: 30.11.2022

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Open Philosophy (ISSN 2543-8875) invites submissions for the topical
issue “Nihilism Seen Through the Lens of Post-Continental
Philosophy”, edited by Halit Evrim Bayındır (Royal Holloway,
University of London).

The Nietzsche-inspired overcoming of nihilism has arguably been the
preeminent project of continental philosophy, at once uniting and
differentiating various strands of phenomenology and
post-structuralism. The power of the project lies in the way it
integrates and grounds a variety of objectives such as the
destruction of metaphysics, representational modes of thought, power
relations, anthropocentrism, and academic philosophy. It is through
thinking and living in a non-nihilistic manner that these objectives
can be accomplished. However, it is questionable today if this
anti-nihilistic orientation in thought still has the status of an
ambitious project as found in the cases of Heidegger and Deleuze. On
the contrary, nihilism tends to become an antiquated problem and the
philosophical relevance of its overcoming seems to be increasingly
downgraded.

This is especially the case in what has been called “post-continental”
currents such as non-philosophy, speculative realism, object-oriented
ontology, accelerationism, afro-pessimism, and neo-rationalism,
which, despite inheriting these objectives, either remained silent
against the anti-nihilist core of continental philosophy or opposed
it with provocative appropriations of nihilism. We might thereby say
that nihilism is one of the important and relatively less discussed
factors that determined the rupture beyond continental thought.

Building on this indeterminate situation, this issue aims to
reproblematise nihilism with the perspectives offered by these new
intellectual developments. With this in mind, it is also an
opportunity to have a fresh look not only at the continental
philosophy and post-continental currents but also at the whole
unfolding of nihilism in western and non-western intellectual and
cultural history. The papers can cover topics as diverse as the
origins of nihilism in German idealism, Russian literature, Eastern
spiritual traditions, analytic and pragmatist philosophy, philosophy
of science, radical political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and
queer theory.


How to submit

Submissions will be collected from October 1 to November 30, 2022.
There are no specific length limitations.

To submit an article for this topical issue, authors are asked to
access the online submission system at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/opphil/

Please choose as article type: Nihilism

Before submission the authors should carefully read over the
Instruction for Authors, available at:
https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPPHIL/downloadAsset/OPPHIL_Instruction%20for%20Authors.pdf

All contributions will undergo critical review before being accepted
for publication.

Because Open Philosophy is published under the Open Access model, as
a rule, publication costs should be covered by so called Article
Publishing Charges (APC), paid by authors, their affiliated
institutions, funders or sponsors.

Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss
potential discounts or waivers with Managing Editor of the journal
Katarzyna Tempczyk before submitting their manuscripts.

Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Halit
Evrim Bayındır:
evrim.bayindir.2...@live.rhul.ac.uk

In case of technical or financial questions, please contact Managing
Editor of the journal, Katarzyna Tempczyk:
katarzyna.tempc...@degruyter.com


Journal website:
https://www.degruyter.com/opphil






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