Why don't we live in the world anymore?

Abstract

Starting with the crisis related to the embeddedness in the world in the late capitalism, this paper presents representative replicas in relation to this crisis-based constellation. It emphasizes three answers to the question of why do not we live in the world and why we are confronted with the term non-world. Jean-Luc Nancy elaborates a sophisticated and highly speculative philosophy dealing with the signification of the world. He pays special attention to the ending of the world by globalization processes. Developing a militant philosophy related to the capitalo-parliamentarism, Alain Badiou emphasizes the gap between the transcendental aspect of the world and the late capitalist conditions. Franck Fischbach is concerned with the articulation of our participation in the world by dispossession and leads us to the meaning of the privatized world. From the perspective of the meaning of the world, he significance of the analysis of the late capitalist society reproduction is pointed out. The author of the paper offers an argumentation that is based on the re-articulation of the notion of katechon in order to "save the world". Recalling the implications of real abstraction as the reality principle in capitalism, the paper provides a critical hermeneutics of real abstractions.