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In this contribution Lehmann argues for a strong concept of political subjectivation. In doing so, she proposes to develop the thesis that for a complete ‘thinking’ of political subjectivation, a metaphysical dimension must be opened up. However, this metaphysics is not a static one of substance, according to which political subjects would find themselves assigned a specific identity. Rather, it is about inner excess, an inner transcendence of being, which implies that in a positive sense beings are not identical with themselves, i.e., that every being transcends its actual appearance in an open, qualitative sense. The metaphysics that Lehmann conceives pursues this inner transcendence, and is thus dynamic: it is metaphysical movement.
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Here with regard to the dynamic metaphysics, I have proposed this is also an attempt to again make fertile certain moments of Critical Theory, prominent in Theodor W. Adorno’s ‘negative dialectic’ insofar as it builds upon the ‘insight into the constitutive character of the nonconceptual in the concept’ (Adorno, 1973, p. 12).
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This refers to Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s ‘Der kurze Sommer der Anarchie: Buenaventura Durrutis Leben und Tod’ (1977).
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Lehmann, S. (2016). Political Subjectivation and Metaphysical Movement. In: Oberprantacher, A., Siclodi, A. (eds) Subjectivation in Political Theory and Contemporary Practices. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51659-6_5
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