Etienne Souriau and the multiplicity of worlds: an experiment on the threshold of indeterminacy

Abstract

By focusing on the shifts brought about by the formulation of different modes of existence, this article explores the gesture posed by Etienne Souriau’s philosophy. Starting from questions such as: What does it change for the multitude of existences to be named in this way? What difference does it make? The question here will be to address the necessity of such a pluralist ontology with regard to our contemporaneity. The challenge is to understand the necessity of such a formula, to draw the problematic threads that allow us to situate this necessity in a larger set of questions, or rather, ways of asking them.