The Concept of Time in Speculative Materialism and the Structure of Literary Text

Abstract

U radu se razmatra koncept vremena u okvirima spekulativnog materijalizma Quentina Meillassouxa. Apsolutno vrijeme predstavljeno je kao most dviju sfera Meillassouxove filozofije; spekulacije kao bijega izvan korelacionističkog kruga u afirmaciji a-subjektnog materijalizma te nacrta Meillassouxove etike prisutne u zasad dostupnim ulomcima njegova doktorata Božje nepostojanje. Meillassouxova se filozofija tumači kao sustav te se naglasak stavlja na odnos vremena i književnog subjekta, odnosno, kroz Meillassouxov koncept virtualnog uspostavlja se čitanje Sebaldova Austerlitza u čijoj se formulaciji pripovjedača pronalazi esencijalno tugovanje kao začetak pozitivnog projekta.The paper examines the concept of time in the context of Quentin Meillassoux's speculative materialism. The absolute time is presented as a link between two sides of Meillassoux's philosophy – speculation, as a way of escape outside of the correlacionist circle through affirmation of a-subjective materialism, and a draft of Meillassoux's ethics in his doctoral thesis The Divine Inexistence. Meillassoux's philosophy is approached as a thought system and the emphasis is placed on the relation between time and the literary subject as the concept of virtual is seen as a ground for interpretation of Sebald's Austerlitz, which structures its narrator as a starting point for the essential grief