TOWARDS THE SUPERNOUMENON is a substantial compilation of spiralling 'supernotes', or loosely aphoristic material, that takes an artificially antithetical position to Schopenhauer, the great rejectionist German philosopher, by positing, in supra-Nietzschean vein, a progression, on the plane of artificial modernity, from phenomenon to noumenon, as though in contrast to anything naturalistic and effectively traditional.
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By John O'Loughlin
Nov 2, 2010
"TOWARDS THE SUPERNOUMENON" This title exemplifies a certain optimism about the possibility of human life progressing, with due transmutations, towards what the author has called the 'supernoumenon', which is intended to signify that which is antithetical, as air to fire, to the 'noumenon', as posited by Schopenhauer as being at the roots of all phenomenal extrapolations. In this instance, we have to allow, contrary to Schopenhauer, for a 'superphenomenal' precondition, in artificial modernity, of this hypothetical 'supernoumenal' resolution, since that which is merely 'phenomenon' has no bearing on 'supernoumenal' possibility, but finds itself opposed by the 'superphenomenal' without the latter's necessarily being aware of that which lies beyond itself as its ultimate justification.
