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joie de vivre thrives wherever the tyranny of truth has
increased our esteem for the lie and wherever the tyranny of
reason has increased our esteem for the mad.
Both thinkers
lay the groundwork for an anti-philosophy, whose spirit of
ref orm bas corne to characterize such alternatives to
metaphysics as the grammatology of Derrida, the
schizanalysis of Deleuze, or the homeorrhetics of Serres.
Al1 such anti-metaphysical meta-philosophies argue that
anomalies extrinsic to a system remain secretly intrinsic to
such a system. The most credible of truths always evolves
£rom the most incredible of errors.
The praxis of science
always involves the parspraxis of poetry.
'Pataphysics, "the science of the particular" (131),
does not, therefore, study the rules governing the general
recurrence of a periodic incident (the ex~ected case) so
much as study the garnes governing the special occurrence of
a sporadic accident (the excepted case).
'Pataphysics not
only studies exception, but has itself become an exception--
dismissed and neglected despite its influence and relevance .
Jarry has not only inspired the absurdity of nearly every
modern avant-garde, but has also predicted the absurdity of
nearly al1 modern techno-science.
No history, however, has
ever traced in detail this unorthodox genealogy, even though
contemporary philosophy has begun to shift its emphasis from