Introduction To Antiphilosophy by Boris Groys

A concise exploration of antiphilosophy as a critical stance that refuses systematic metaphysics, tracing its genealogy through modern thinkers and avant-garde practices and showing how art, literature, and political action take up philosophical tasks while rejecting philosophy’s pretensions to totalizing theory. It argues that antiphilosophy is not mere negation but a distinct mode of thought and practice that foregrounds the limits of conceptual language, the performative and institutional dimensions of thinking, and the ethical-political stakes of declaring an 'end' to traditional philosophy. The work also analyzes how antiphilosophical gestures can be institutionalized or recuperated, highlighting the tension between radical dissent and cultural incorporation.