Aphesis

In his first major work of philosophy, Treydon Lunot tackles the question of subjectivity, closely examining the various paradoxical features, necessities, and impossibilities that lie at the heart of the subject. In opposition to modern and postmodern attempts to do away with the subject through the embrace of impersonal chaos and multiplicity, Lunot follows in the steps of German Idealism and its modern successors (such as Slavoj Zizek and Dieter Henrich) by asserting its centrality as the 'self-relating negative' that is radically closed off from the world. Touching on topics such as the death of God, the movement of history, Nietzscheanism, and Christianity, Lunot journeys through various thinkers and ideas with the expressed goal of shedding light on the nature of subjectivity. After coming to the conclusion that the subject is internally inconsistent, barred from itself and the world, and that 'no one gets to heaven', Lunot finally poses the question: is it possible to attain salvation?