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Carlos Andrés Segovia y Corral, 2nd Marquis of Salobreña (born 22 May 1970), is a Spanish nobleman and academic specialising in
philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
and
religious studies Religious studies, also known as religiology or the study of religion, is the study of religion from a historical or scientific perspective. There is no consensus on what qualifies as ''religion'' and definition of religion, its definition is h ...
. Segovia y Corral is an independent
philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
and
scholar A scholar is a person who is a researcher or has expertise in an academic discipline. A scholar can also be an academic, who works as a professor, teacher, or researcher at a university. An academic usually holds an advanced degree or a termina ...
working in
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, where he collaborates with Parrhesia Berlin e.V., a non-profit teaching and research organization devoted to the public practice of philosophy and linked to the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He was formerly associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at
Saint Louis University Saint Louis University (SLU) is a private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1818 by Louis William Valentine DuBourg, it is the oldest university west of the Missi ...
in
Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
,
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between 2013 and 2024. He works since 2018 against the backdrop of contemporary philosophical discussions on contingency and thinkability. He views the opposition between Openness and Closure as the core problem of today’s philosophy, in which Closure remains the undesirable object and Openness tends to be conceived in three different ways: as dissolution, randomness, and chiasmus or infinitesimality. Segovia y Corral's work explores this third possibility – which goes back to
Heraclitus Heraclitus (; ; ) was an Ancient Greece, ancient Greek Pre-Socratic philosophy, pre-Socratic philosopher from the city of Ephesus, which was then part of the Achaemenid Empire, Persian Empire. He exerts a wide influence on Western philosophy, ...
and
Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many ...
– after
Heidegger Martin Heidegger (; 26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. His work covers a range of topics including metaphysics, art, and language. In April ...
, Lévi-Strauss, and especially Guattari, on whom he has moreover published an essay titled: ''Guattary Beyond Deleuze: Ontology and Modal Philosophy in Guattari's Major Writings'', that cross-examines for the first time Guattari and
Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes o ...
’s philosophies and highlights their divergent aspects, and a co-edited volume (with Gary Genosko) titled: ''Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy''. Besides, and against the anti-correlationist identification of thought with intelligible closure, Segovia y Corral is currently developing a philosophy of pre-representational thought’s rhythmic thresholds and configurations partly inspired in Guattari’s heretofore unpublished views on conceptual variance. Lastly, he explores whether the relation between the possible and the given on the one hand, and the Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic on the other hand, must be thought in oppositional, subordinative, or asymptotic terms. These various gestures aim at setting the ontological and epistemological basis of a post-nihilist thinking – post-nihilism being his own coined term in his recently co-authored book: ''Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism: Rethinking the Earth–World Divide''. From a more practical standpoint, Segovia y Corral explores the ways in which the production of subjectivity proves an always-creative undertake that puts forward each time its own chaosmic lines, or lines of articulation which allow us, individually and collectively, to combine the chaotic multiplicity of material, energetic, sensorial, affective, mnemonic, oneiric, aesthetic, symbolic and conceptual stuff through which our everyday lives roll so as to configure new existential Territories and Universes of value capable of conferring sense upon what we live and of improving our mental, social, and natural habitats. In this respect, he work at the crossroads of Guattarian
schizoanalysis Schizoanalysis (''or'' ecosophy, pragmatics, micropolitics, rhizomatics, or nomadology) (; ''schizo-'' from Greek σχίζειν ''skhizein'', meaning "to split") is a set of theories and techniques developed by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psy ...
and contemporary philosophy. Additionally, Segovia y Corral has published on comparative ontologies at the crossroads of
Anthropocene ''Anthropocene'' is a term that has been used to refer to the period of time during which human impact on the environment, humanity has become a planetary force of change. It appears in scientific and social discourse, especially with respect to ...
studies, contemporary philosophy, and cultural anthropology, which have resulted in several publications in edited volumes like Jan Alber’s ''The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change'', Joan Pedro-Caraña, Eliana Herrera-Huérfano, and Elena Ochoa-Almanza’s ''Communication Justice in the Pluriverse: An International Dialogue'', and in the journal ''Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South-America''; as well as in the organization of several workshops and artshops, including Becoming Terrans at the Institute for X in Godsbanen,
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(
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). Plus, as a diagrammatic artist himself, he has worked, published and presented publicly his work on the reciprocal presupposition of earth and world, the earth’s semiotic prism, the dynamics of openness and closure, the role of axiological antitheses in cinematographic diegesis, infinitesimalness in musical counterpoint, Heraclitus’s fractal logic, Antigone’s rhythmic registers, and contemporary philosophy’s post-nihilist geography and meta-conceptual star. In turn, between 2008 and 2018 Segovia y Corral mostly worked on late-antique religion (with special emphasis on the intertwining of group-identity markers, sectarian boundaries, discursive strategies, and more generally the conceptualisation of hybridity and ambiguity in religious origins, as a means to counter present-day religious
fundamentalism Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that are characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguis ...
,
ethnocentrism Ethnocentrism in social science and anthropology—as well as in colloquial English discourse—means to apply one's own culture or ethnicity as a frame of reference to judge other cultures, practices, behaviors, beliefs, and people, instead o ...
, and
xenophobia Xenophobia (from (), 'strange, foreign, or alien', and (), 'fear') is the fear or dislike of anything that is perceived as being foreign or strange. It is an expression that is based on the perception that a conflict exists between an in-gr ...
); and published several books on these and other related issues, including ''Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories'', ''The Quranic Jesus: A New Interpretation'', ''The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet: A Study of Intertextuality and Religious Identity Formation in Late Antiquity'', and (with Gabriele Boccaccini) ''Paul the Jew: Rereading the Apostle as a Figure of Second Temple Judaism'', He was also series co-editor of Apocalypticism: Cross-disciplinary Explorations at Peter Lang. as well as the Spanish translation of
Daniel Boyarin Daniel Boyarin (; born 1946) is an Israeli–American academic and historian of religion. Born in New Jersey, he holds dual United States and Israeli citizenship. He is the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Dep ...
's ''Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity'': ''Espacios fronterizos. Judaísmo y cristianismo en la Antigüedad tardía''. Formerly, between 2005 and 2007, he had published several translations into Spanish of
Avicenna Ibn Sina ( – 22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna ( ), was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world, flourishing during the Islamic Golden Age, serving in the courts of various Iranian peoples, Iranian ...
's and
Abu Hasan al-Ash'ari Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (; 874–936 CE) was an Arab Muslim theologian known for being the eponymous founder of the Ash'ari school of kalam in Sunnism. Al-Ash'ari was notable for taking an intermediary position between the two diametrically op ...
's works, and a monograph on the philosophy of
Mulla Sadra Ṣadr ad-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, more commonly known as Mullā Ṣadrā (; ; c. 1571/2 – c. 1635/40 CE / 980 – 1050 AH), was a Persians, Persian Twelver Shi'a, Shi'i Islamic philosophy, Islamic mystic, philosopher, Kalam, theologian, a ...
in contemporary perspective: ''Șadr ad-Dīn Šīrāzī: La filosofía islámica y el problema del ser''. Segovia y Corral is the author of numerous scholarly books and articles, including the monographs ''Guattary Beyond Deleuze: Ontology and Modal Philosophy in Guattari's Major Writings'', ''Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism: Rethinking the Earth–World Divide'' (with Sofya Shaikut), ''Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy'' (with Gary Genosko), ''Immanence and the Sacred'',''The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet: A Study of Intertextuality and Religious Identity Formation in Late Antiquity'', and ''The Quranic Jesus: A New Interpretation''; the edited journal topical issues ''Conceptual Personae in Ontology'', and ''From Worlds of Possibles to Possible Worlds: On Post-nihilism and Dwelling''; the edited volume ''Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories''; and articles such as "Spinoza as Savage Thought," "Post-Heideggerian Drifts: From Object-Oriented-Ontology Worldlessness to Post-Nihilist Worldings," "Earth and World(s): From Heidegger's Fourfold to Contemporary Anthropology," "Rethinking Dionnysus and Apollo: Redrawing Today's Philosophical Board," "Guattari \ Heidegger: On Quaternities, Deterritorialisation and Worlding", "From Worlds of Possibles to Possible Worlds – or, Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism," "Paul and the Plea for Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy: A Philosophical and Anthropological Critique," "Tupi or Not Tupi – That is the Question: On Semiocannibalism, Its Variants, and their Logics," "Impromptu: The Alien – Heraclitus's Cut," "Fire in Three Images, from Heraclitus to the Anthropocene," "Four Cosmopolitical Ideas for an Unworlded World," "The New Animism: Experimental, Isomeric, Liminal, and Chaosmic," and "Rethinking Death's Sacredness: From Heraclitus's frag. DK B62 to Robert Gardner's Dead Birds"; also writes regularly about philosophy at polymorph.blog. Carlos Andrés Segovia y Corral is the youngest child of the celebrated classical guitarist
Andrés Segovia Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña (21 February 1893 – 2 June 1987), was a Spanish virtuoso classical guitarist. Many professional classical guitarists were either students of Segovia or students of Segovia's students. Segovia ...
, the first Marquis of Salobreña.Genealogy of the Marquesses of Salobreña
/ref> He is married to performative artist and
Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founder ...
dancer Sofya Shaikut.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Segovia, Carlos Andres 1970 births Living people Contemporary philosophers Spanish historians of philosophy Historians of Jews and Judaism Historians of Christianity Historians of Islam British historians of religion