2026/05/04 by Mario Blaser · 1 voice
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy #Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
paper · doi:10.1177/20438206261449231
openalex publication_date 2026/05/04 · openalex created_date 2026/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
This commentary engages Özge Can Doğmuş's argument that disappearance should be understood as an effect of unequal exposure to finitude. Drawing on an ethnographic vignette from the Chaco forest, it argues that this formulation presupposes the stability of disappearance as an event, whereas political ontology requires treating the event itself as uncertain and relationally constituted. The article's tension between a Heideggerian grounding in finitude and a relational account of world reconfiguration is examined. The commentary proposes that disappearance is not a single event unevenly distributed but emerges differently across partially connected worlds, with implications for how care, justice, and philosophical analysis are conceived.