Tomorrow the Manifold

Essays on Foucault, Anarchy, and the Singularization to Come

Schurmann Reiner

This volume tracks the crucial role of Reiner Schurmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991. Drawing on Foucault's highly original reading of the philosophical tradition, Schurmann traces the status of identity and difference in Foucault's conception of history to develop a radical phenomenological understanding of anarchy. He examines the fate of philosophy after the critique of the subject and the collapse of the divide between theory and praxis, philosophy and politics.

Taken together, these pivotal essays introduce the reader to Schurmann's most urgent concerns and assemble the conceptual tools that go on to lay the groundwork for his final work, Broken Hegemonies, which offers a subversive re-reading of the history of Western metaphysics outside of Foucault's genealogical approach. This essay collection documents a crucial shift in Schurmann's philosophy that helped to establish him as one of the most radical thinkers of the late twentieth century.

About the Author

Reiner Schurmann (1941-93) was a German philosopher. He was born in Amsterdam and lived in Germany, Israel, and France before immigrating to the United States in the 1970s, where he was professor and director of the Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of three books on philosophy: "Heidegger on Being and Acting", "Wandering Joy", and "Broken Hegemonies". Origins is his only work of fiction. He never wrote nor published in his native German.

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