The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism - Posthumanities - Steven Shaviro - Grāmatas - University of Minnesota Press - 9780816689262 - 2014. gada 1. oktobris
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The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism - Posthumanities


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From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead?s work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way of moving beyond solely human perceptions of nature and existence. Now Steven Shaviro maps this quickly emerging speculative realism, which is already dramatically influencing how we interpret reality and our place in a universe in which humans are not the measure of all things.


The Universe of Things explores the common insistence of speculative realism on a noncorrelationist thought: that things or objects exist apart from how our own human minds relate to and comprehend them. Shaviro focuses on how Whitehead both anticipates and offers challenges to prevailing speculative realist thought, moving between Whitehead?s own panpsychism, Harman?s object-oriented ontology, and the reductionist eliminativism of Quentin Meillassoux and Ray Brassier.


The stakes of this recent speculative realist thought?of the effort to develop new ways of grasping the world?are enormous as it becomes clear that our inherited assumptions are no longer adequate to describe, much less understand, the reality we experience around us. As Shaviro acknowledges, speculative realist thought has its dangers, but it also, like the best speculative fiction, holds the potential to liberate us from confining views of what is outside ourselves and, he believes, to reclaim aesthetics and beauty as a principle of life itself.


Bringing together a wide array of contemporary thought, and evenhandedly assessing its current debates, The Universe of Things is an invaluable guide to the evolution of speculative realism and the provocation of Alfred North Whitehead?s pathbreaking work.


192 pages

Mediji Grāmatas     Paperback Book   (Grāmata ar mīksto vāku un līmēto muguru)
Izlaists 2014. gada 1. oktobris
ISBN13 9780816689262
Izdevēji University of Minnesota Press
Lapas 192
Izmēri 157 × 216 × 13 mm   ·   272 g
Valoda Angļu  

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