Form and Object: A Treatise on Things

A shockingly novel view of substance that will significantly change contemporary debates about substance and ontological emergenceRead and download the introduction, the series editor's preface and the translators' introduction to Form and Object for free now (pdf)Read a Q&A between Tr...

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Main Author: Garcia, Tristan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Series:Speculative Realism : SPRE
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Summary:A shockingly novel view of substance that will significantly change contemporary debates about substance and ontological emergenceRead and download the introduction, the series editor's preface and the translators' introduction to Form and Object for free now (pdf)Read a Q&A between Tristan Garcia and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf)Read a Q&A between the translators, Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn, and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf)What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place in it.Garcia's original and systematic formal ontology of things strips them of any determination, intensity or depth. From this radical ontological poverty, he develops encyclopaedic regional ontologies of objects. By covering topics as diverse as the universe, events, time, the living, animals, human beings, representation, arts and rules, culture, history, political economy, values, classes, genders, ages of life and death, he shows that speculative metaphysics and ontology are alive and well.Key FeaturesProposes a systematic philosophy essential to the development of metaphysics, the ontology of objects and speculative realismCombines the analytic and continental traditions, and will appeal to philosophers working on either sideApplies his metaphysics to philosophically charged practical issues such as vegetarianism, animal rights, the nature of representation, death, culture and history
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (488 pages) 3 B/W illustrations
ISBN:9780748681518
DOI:10.1515/9780748681518

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