Coral Russell

Radical Immanence: The Philosophy of Marguerite Young (3rd Edition)For sixty years, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young has been filed under the wrong category. Critics called it unreadable. Scholars shelved it as experimental fiction. They were looking in the wrong place. This groundbreaking work makes the case that Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young is not a novel that contains philosophical ideas.
It is a complete philosophical system, as rigorously constructed and internally coherent as anything produced by the tradition that gets to call itself philosophy without defending the claim. Young chose fiction as her form not out of literary preference but out of philosophical necessity: a treatise on the impossibility of stable selfhood written in stable expository prose would contradict itself before the second paragraph.
At the heart of this study are ten load-bearing pillars that together constitute what the author calls radical immanence, a philosophy built for the world we are actually living in. This third edition presents all ten pillars together for the first time as the complete architecture they actually are, a unified account of a philosophy that chose the longest possible sentence as its form because the world it describes has not ended yet, and neither has the sentence.
The world is here. The self is plural and here. The grief is permanent and here. The sacred is here. The building is provisional and here. The witness stays here, in the room, with the contradiction, without flinching and without concluding. [Here is the whole of it.