A ghost thought. Notes on the Schopenhauerian background of our world

The latest work on Schopenhauer, including that by Francois Felix, examine the centrality of the subject in the representation process. Meanwhile, the contemporary opening initiated by Michel Henry, Clement Rosset and even Deleuze, Debord and Baudrillard, emphasizes the non-mastery of representation over reality. It is as if contemporaneity has rediscovered Schopenhauer’s observation of the power of representation to distort reality. The Schhopenhauerian subject as an initiator of forms, but also as a critique of its own forms, may appear to be an operative model for reinvigorating the critical dimension in a theoretical world encased in submissive acceptance.