Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity

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Rok Benčin (Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts.)

Rethinking the Concept of World

Towards Transcendental Multiplicity

Rok Benčin (Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts.)

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Edinburgh University Press
31 December 2025

Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Social & political philosophy

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.

By: Rok Benčin (Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts.)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781399502900
ISBN 10: 1399502905
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 31 December 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Prose of Worlds 1. World According to Contemporary Philosophy: Lost, Obsolete or Multiplied? 2. The Leibnizian Turn 3. Between Ontological and Transcendental Multiplicity 4. From Cosmopolitanism to the Conflict of Worlds 5. Worlds as Fictions, Artworks as Monadic Objects 6. Proust’s Worlds: From Logic to Prose Conclusion: The Multiplicity of Worlds and Inter-Worldly Phenomena Bibliography Index

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.

Reviews for Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity

What does it mean to inhabit not a world, but a multiplicity of worlds, how do their scissions and proliferations constitute the contemporary predicament? Rok Bencin's book, taking its cue from Leibniz, explores this multiplicity through the works of Deleuze, Badiou, Proust, Rancière, confronts their thresholds and overlappings, both in their aesthetic, ontological, and political dimensions. It states anew, with a strong conceptual grip, what has been spared out both by the disqualification of the world by the infinity of science or by its equation with the innate loss of a unified cosmos: the discontinous frameworks our reality is made of. -- ""Antonia Birnbaum, University of Applied Arts, Vienna""