Invention of Infinity: Essays on Husserl and the History of Philosophy

Claudio Majolino (PhD University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2002). After teaching at University of Paris “La Sorbonne” (2003-2004), he is Associate Professor of philosophy at University of Lille (France) (2005—), full researcher at the UMR-CNRS research unit “Savoirs, Textes, Langage” (France) (2005—) and permanent faculty member of the “Summer School of Phenomenology” at University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice (Italy) (2013—). He has been visiting professor in many universities world-wide (University of Ouagadougou, 2007; Seattle University, 2008-2010; Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2017). He is specialized in the philosophy of language, phenomenology, metaphysics and the history of philosophy.

• Introduction.- 1. The invention of infinity? On some provisional questions.- Part I: Openings.- 2. Multiplicity, manifolds and varieties of constitution. A manifesto.- 3. The reach of attitudes.- Part II: Maps.- 4. Individuum and region of being. On the unifying principle of a “headless” ontology.- 5. Mapping ontology and its boundaries.- Part III: Worlds and Unworlds.- 6. “Until the end of the world”. On eidetic variation and absolute being of consciousness.- 7. Within and beyond productive imagination. A historical-critical inquiry into phenomenology.- Part IV: Paths.- 8. The vicissitudes of the improper.- 9. Back to the meanings themselves (and away from the Noema). On phenomenology and the Stoic doctrine of the lekton.- Part V: Infinity.- 10. Plato’s light and Gorgias’s shadow. On the manifold “beginnings” of philosophy.- 11. The Infinite Academy. On how to be a Platonist with some (Aristotelian?) help.- Conclusion.- 12. The invenvion of infinity. On a tentative answer.