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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Segovia and the second or maternal family name is Corral.
The Most Illustrious
The Marquis of Salobreña
Philosopher and scholar of religion Carlos A. Segovia
Born
Carlos Andrés Segovia y Corral

(1970-05-22) 22 May 1970 (age 54)
OccupationAcademic

Carlos Andrés Segovia y Corral, 2nd Marquis of Salobreña (born 22 May 1970), is a Spanish nobleman and academic specialising in philosophy and religious studies.

Segovia y Corral is an independent philosopher and scholar, formerly associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain between 2013 and 2024.[1]

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 and Leibniz – after Heidegger, 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,[2] that cross-examines for the first time Guattari and Deleuze’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.[3] 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of pre-representational thought’s rhythmic thresholds and configurations partly inspired in Guattari’s heretofore unpublished views on conceptual variance. These two 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.[4]

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 and contemporary philosophy.

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, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia). He is also series co-editor of Apocalypticism: Cross-disciplinary Explorations at Peter Lang.[5]

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,[6] Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism: Rethinking the Earth–World Divide (with Sofya Shaikut),[7] Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy (with Gary Genosko),[8] Immanence and the Sacred,[9]The Quranic Noah and the Making of the Islamic Prophet: A Study of Intertextuality and Religious Identity Formation in Late Antiquity,[10] and The Quranic Jesus: A New Interpretation;[11] the edited journal topical issues Conceptual Personae in Ontology,[12] and From Worlds of Possibles to Possible Worlds: On Post-nihilism and Dwelling;[13] the edited volume Remapping Emergent Islam: Texts, Social Settings, and Ideological Trajectories;[14] and articles such as "Spinoza as Savage Thought," [15] "Post-Heideggerian Drifts: From Object-Oriented-Ontology Worldlessness to Post-Nihilist Worldings," [16] "Earth and World(s): From Heidegger's Fourfold to Contemporary Anthropology," [17] "Rethinking Dionnysus and Apollo: Redrawing Today's Philosophical Board," [18] "Guattari \ Heidegger: On Quaternities, Deterritorialisation and Worlding",[19] "From Worlds of Possibles to Possible Worlds – or, Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism," [20] "Paul and the Plea for Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy: A Philosophical and Anthropological Critique," [21] "Tupi or Not Tupi – That is the Question: On Semiocannibalism, Its Variants, and their Logics," [22] "Impromptu: The Alien – Heraclitus's Cut," [23] "Fire in Three Images, from Heraclitus to the Anthropocene," [24] "Four Cosmopolitical Ideas for an Unworlded World," [25] "The New Animism: Experimental, Isomeric, Liminal, and Chaosmic," [26] and "Rethinking Death's Sacredness: From Heraclitus's frag. DK B62 to Robert Gardner's Dead Birds";[27] also writes regularly about philosophy at polymorph.blog.[28]

Carlos Andrés Segovia y Corral is the youngest child of the celebrated classical guitarist Andrés Segovia, the first Marquis of Salobreña.[29] He is married to performative artist and Butoh dancer Sofya Shaikut.

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  1. ^ Carlos A. Segovia @ SLU-Madrid
  2. ^ Palgrave Macmillan
  3. ^ Bloomsbury
  4. ^ Brill VIBS-SE Series
  5. ^ Peter Lang International Academic Publishers ACE Series
  6. ^ Palgrave Macmillan
  7. ^ Brill VIBS-SE Series
  8. ^ Bloomsbury
  9. ^ Almuzara Ensayo (in Spanish)
  10. ^ Walter de Gruyter JCIT Series
  11. ^ Walter de Gruyter JCIT Series
  12. ^ Open Philosophy (De Gruyter) 5.1
  13. ^ RDQ (University of Brasilia)
  14. ^ Amsterdam University Press
  15. ^ Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge
  16. ^ RDQ (University of Brasilia)
  17. ^ Open Philosophy
  18. ^ Open Philosophy
  19. ^ Deleuze and Guattari Studies (Edinburg University Press)
  20. ^ RDQ (University of Brasilia)
  21. ^ Open Philosophy
  22. ^ RDQ (University of Brasilia)
  23. ^ Alienocene
  24. ^ Cosmos and History
  25. ^ The Apocalyptic Dimensions of Climate Change, ed. Jan Alber, Walter de Gruyter Culture & Conflict Series
  26. ^ Thémata. Revista de Filosofía (in Spanish)
  27. ^ Open Theology
  28. ^ polymorph.blog: rethinking ideas, reimagining worlds
  29. ^ Genealogy of the Marquesses of Salobreña
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