From metaphysics to anarchy. The political thought of Reiner Schürmann

Abstract

The article tries to approach the way in which Reiner Schürmann work, through an original interpretation of Martin Heidegger thought, manages to develop an anarchic political philosophy. We will try to analyse, in the dispersed work of the Dutch philosopher, the idea of anarchy as an existential condition, with special reference to the link between the death of the metaphysics and the possibility of an anarchist political practice. The article is divided in three parts: in the first part we will examine the notion of Being and of “practical a priori” in the work of Schürmann. In the second, we will see the differences between Schürmann’s and Vattimo’s nihilism and, in the third, we will deepen the more properly political consequences of Schürmann thought.