In philosophy–as in the world–'life'is a perplexing phenomenon. In ways that betray our
anthropomorphic biases, we are accustomed to 'concept'and 'life'being separated by a clear
boundary: when we stop thinking, we start living; and in order to begin thinking, one must
bracket living. At a certain point, the most adequate concept of life simply becomes 'life itself'–
with the 'concept'part then receding behind a haze of affective immediacy. In such instances,
the visceral nature of life would exchange places with life as a speculative phenomenon (a …

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