Global Trend of the 21st Century: the Deterritorization of Philosophy

Abstract

Leading trend of the philosophical process is today the deterritorization of phi­losophy, that is the displacement of the focus of the philosophizing from the area of properly philosophical concepts and problems to areas of other discourses and disciplines. A more general phenomenon takes place too: the deterritorization be­comes a universal mechanism, which acts in all parts of the global system and on all its levels. Among many vectors of the deterritorization the following three are of prime importance for the future of the global system: the deterritorization to virtual reality, to cosmos and to eschaton. The program of the complex study of the deterritorization of philosophy is outlined and, as the first stage of this program, the analysis of the deterritorization to science is performed. We find that the development of the relationship of philosophy and science follows the paradigm of alternating phases of scientific onset trying to subordinate phi­losophy to science and philosophical rebuff, which restores anew the irreducible authenticity and autonomy of philosophical mind. The latest stages of this alter­nation are analyzed, starting with the onset of synergetics. We show, how scien­tific formations that came after the synergetic paradigm such as the autopoiesis and the enactivism improved gradually their epistemology and acquired form and nature of sound constructivist philosophy. Nevertheless the philosophical re­buff finds that they do not overcome essentially old scientism, which is unac­ceptable for philosophy.