Issue 2 · Closed call

Fiction, a new rigor

Fiction as conceptual invention and a method of non-philosophical rigor — philo-fiction, science fiction, political fiction.

Closed call — texts due 30 September 2009

Call for contributions

Issue 2 is devoted to the theme of fiction. A few possible suggestions or orientations:

Non-philosophy has always claimed a form of fiction or conceptual invention (possibly axiomatic or literary in style), without which its ambition has little effectiveness; it has posed certain conditions of possibility or impossibility for a philosophical kind of fiction, the new parameters and necessary categories of thought, the invention of a genre said in a single syntagm, “philo-fiction.”
Nothing forbids — though it is not non-philosophy’s primary aim — dedicating texts to problems proper to philosophy. To what extent is philosophy a fiction (Voltaire in the restricted critical sense, Derrida in the productive sense), is it capable of fiction (Leibniz), does it need fiction to be argued (Descartes, Husserl) or to be completed (Plato, the neo-Platonists, Badiou)?
In the spirit of the journal, texts of the kind “fiction in so-and-so…” should raise theoretical rather than historical or historicising problems. Relations with science fiction, science, political fiction, and art may be submitted. Brief texts presenting themselves as fictions in act but with theoretical meaning or effect are entirely welcome.

This call is closed; the corresponding issue has been published.