antagonist

1. Philosophy has been robbed of all theoretical pretensions, not because she has become a fabric of approximations and errors – that she’s knows very well – but because her intentions are wrong. “Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical” (T. 4.003). It is a characteristic of anti-philosophy to never intend to discuss the philosophical theses (like the philosopher worthy of that name who refutes his predecessors or his contemporaries), because to do so means to share its normative claims (for example about true and false). So what the anti-philosopher sets out to do, is to situate the philosophical desire in its entirety in the register of error and the harmful. The metaphor of disease is never absent from such a plan, and it is well pointed out when Wittgenstein speaks of “nonsensical. From the “nonsensical”, that is to say “deprived of sense”, it follows that philosophy is not same as thinking. The definition of thinking or thought is in fact precisely: “A thought is a proposition with a sense” (T, 4.).

Philosophy then, is a non-thinking. Moreover – this is a subtle, but crucial point – it is not an affirmative non-thinking, one that bridges the limits of a meaningful propositions with sense by clutching at an unsayable reality. Philosophy is a regressive and diseased non-thinking, because she pretends to present her nonsensicalness (propre absurdité}) within a propositional and theoretical register. The philosophical disease appears when the non-sensical is exposed as sensical, when the non-thinking imagines itself to be thinking. Also, philosophy must not need to be refuted, as if it is a false thinking, it must be judged and condemned as a false non-thinking, the gravest of faults: to inscribe itself nonsensically into the protocols (propositions and theories) reserved for thinking. The philosopher, with regard to the eminent worth of affirmative non-thinking (that which is an act that crosses the barrier of the sensical) is guilty.