Rethinking the Concept of World

By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Ranciere and Marcel Proust,Rok Benin proposes a new understanding of these worlds as overlapping transcendental frameworks consisting of fictional structures that frame ontological multiplicity.
Examining political conflicts and aesthetic interferences that exist between divergent worlds today, he reconsiders the way political and artistic practices reconfigure contemporary experiences of worldliness.

Author Biography

Rok Benčin is a Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. His research focuses on the relations between aesthetics, ontology and politics in contemporary philosophy. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Paris 8 and the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He has published journal articles in Theory, Culture & Society, European Review and SubStance: A review of theory and literary criticism. He is a member of the International Comparative Literature Association’s Research Committee on Literary Theory.