Rok Benčin, current Committee member, has published the book Rethinking the Concept of World: Towards Transcendental Multiplicity (Edinburgh UP 2024). By engaging with the work of modern and contemporary philosophers and writers, in particular G. W. Leibniz, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière, and Marcel Proust, the book proposes a new understanding of these worlds as overlapping transcendental frameworks consisting of fictional structures that frame ontological multiplicity. Examining political conflicts and aesthetic interferences that exist between divergent worlds today, he reconsiders the way political and artistic practices reconfigure contemporary experiences of worldliness.

Rethinking the Concept of World is available in open access here.