Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity

by Treydon Lunot, Chad A. Haag (Foreword)

In his first major work of philosophy, Treydon Lunot tackles the problem of subjectivity, closely examining the various paradoxical features, necessities, and contradictions that lie at the heart of self-consciousness. In opposition to modern and postmodern attempts to do away with the subject through the embrace of impersonal chaos and multiplicity, Lunot follows in the steps of German Idealism and its modern successors (such as Slavoj Žižek and Dieter Henrich) by asserting its centrality as the 'self-relating negative' that is radically closed off from the world. Touching on topics such as time-consciousness, the death of God, Nietzscheanism, and Christianity, Lunot journeys through various thinkers and ideas with the expressed goal of shedding light on the nature of subjectivity. After discovering that the subject is internally inconsistent, closed off from itself and the world, and that 'no one gets to heaven,' Lunot finally poses the question: is it possible to attain salvation?

Genres: Philosophy

140 pages, Paperback

Published November 3, 2022

Reviews

[Tommy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very big brain, would highly recommend buying a physical copy when it comes out

[De Profundis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simply brilliant! Aphesis: The Impossibility of Subjectivity explores some of the fundamental questions at the centre of reality, and in a way that most philosophers have failed to do. This is an absolute 'must-read' for all with an interest in philosophy, as this book tackles very difficult questions head-on and provides the most profound and meaningful answer to *every* possible philosophical dilemma one may find themselves in. In John 18:38, Pilate asked the daunting question: "What is truth?"; and unlike any other philosophical or religious system, Christ posits a most interesting answer: "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). Truth is not an abstract, distant thought; rather, truth is a personal reality, a lived experience with the Father, in Christ. Jesus is the fundamental root and centre of our existence, he is love incarnate, which casts out all fear (1 Jn 4). Christ is the Lamb immolated from the foundation of the world (Rev 13:8). It is through Christ that our world is made transparent and the loneliness of the self is freed. Thank you Treydon for the wonderful read and I hope to see more from you in the future! :)

[Saul Walt · Rating 5 out of 5]

If philosophy were drugs, then this would be some good shit, home grown, strong, authentic, not the waffling mediated by academic expectations, but a true investigation into subjectivity and alienation with a surprising turn to Christian thought and away from the inannities of Nietzscheanism and into propper thicc Hegelian thinking, lol.