Roy Ben-Shai
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Ben-Shai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Shai |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-SHAI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
On Synontology
This essay examines variations on the argument that relations, rather than things, are the fundamental ontological units—what I refer to as synontology. The essay begins by surveying a number of seminal iterations of this idea, and then examines synontology as a practice, method, and politics. Lastly, I consider synontology in its historical context—its past, present, and future—showing that it has been consistently present in the history of phil…
Critique of Critique
What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of what 'critique' is in the first place. Roy Ben-Shai inspects critique as an orientation of critical thinking, probing its structures and assumptions, its limits and…
Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious
Taking seriously Jacques Lacan’s claim that “the unconscious is politics”, this volume proposes a new understanding of political power, as it interrogates the assumption that contemporary capitalism functions by tapping into people’s forms of unconscious enjoyment, rather than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of political meanings and desires. Whether we’re aware of it or not, political communication today targets the audi…
The Fifth Antinomy
Where is it decreed that enlightenment must be free of emotion? To me, the opposite seems to be true. Enlightenment can properly fulfill its task only if it sets to work with passion." - Améry, At the Mind's LimitsThis statement, which concludes the preface to the 1977 reissue of At the Mind’s Limits, conveys the philosophical ambition of the book: to advance the enlightenment project, while revising the way we understand this project. The idea, …
The Fifth Antinomy
Where is it decreed that enlightenment must be free of emotion? To me, the opposite seems to be true. Enlightenment can properly fulfill its task only if it sets to work with passion." - Améry, At the Mind's LimitsThis statement, which concludes the preface to the 1977 reissue of At the Mind’s Limits, conveys the philosophical ambition of the book: to advance the enlightenment project, while revising the way we understand this project. The idea, …
The Fifth Antinomy
Where is it decreed that enlightenment must be free of emotion? To me, the opposite seems to be true. Enlightenment can properly fulfill its task only if it sets to work with passion." - Améry, At the Mind's LimitsThis statement, which concludes the preface to the 1977 reissue of At the Mind’s Limits, conveys the philosophical ambition of the book: to advance the enlightenment project, while revising the way we understand this project. The idea, …
Critique of Critique
What is critique? How is it used and abused? At a moment when popular discourse is saturated with voices confronting each other about not being critical enough, while academic discourses proclaim to have moved past critique, this provocative book reawakens the foundational question of what 'critique' is in the first place. Roy Ben-Shai inspects critique as an orientation of critical thinking, probing its structures and assumptions, its limits and…
Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious
Taking seriously Jacques Lacan’s claim that “the unconscious is politics”, this volume proposes a new understanding of political power, as it interrogates the assumption that contemporary capitalism functions by tapping into people’s forms of unconscious enjoyment, rather than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of political meanings and desires. Whether we’re aware of it or not, political communication today targets the audi…
Introduction
On Synontology
This essay examines variations on the argument that relations, rather than things, are the fundamental ontological units—what I refer to as synontology. The essay begins by surveying a number of seminal iterations of this idea, and then examines synontology as a practice, method, and politics. Lastly, I consider synontology in its historical context—its past, present, and future—showing that it has been consistently present in the history of phil…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Allusion (1 work) · Antinomy (1 work) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (1 work) · Capitalism (1 work) · Critical reading (1 work)