Graham Harman: Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making (2011)
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Quentin Meillassoux has been described as the most rapidly prominent French philosopher in the Anglophone world since Jacques Derrida in the 1960s. With the publication of After Finitude (2006), this daring protege of Alain Badiou became one of the world’s most visible younger thinkers.
In this book, his fellow Speculative Realist, Graham Harman, assesses Meillassoux’s publications in English so far. Also included are an insightful interview with Meillassoux and first-time translations of excerpts from L’Inexistence divine (The Divine Inexistence), his famous but still unpublished major book.
Publisher Edinburgh University Press, July 2011
Speculative Realism series
ISBN 0748640800, 9780748640805
240 pages
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Comment (0)Félix Guattari: Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm (1992–) [PT, EN, ES, IT]
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Guattari’s final book is a succinct summary of his socio-philosophical outlook. It includes critical reflections on Lacanian psychoanalysis, structuralism, information theory, postmodernism, and the thought of Heidegger, Bakhtin, Barthes, and others.
Originally published in French as Chaosmose, Editions Galilee, Paris, 1992.
English edition
Translated by Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis
Publisher Indiana University Press, 1995
ISBN 0253210046, 9780253210043
144 pages
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Caosmose (Portuguese, trans. Ana Lúcia de Oliveira and Lúcia Cláudia Leão, 1992, added on 2013-9-26)
Chaosmosis (English, trans. Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis, 1995, updated on 2015-3-26)
Caosmosis (Spanish, trans. Irene Agoff, 1996, added on 2013-1-5)
Caosmosi (Italian, trans. Massimiliano Guareschi, 1996, no OCR, added on 2013-1-5)
Levi R. Bryant: The Democracy of Objects (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · object, object-oriented ontology, onticology, ontology, philosophy, speculative realism, systems theory
Since Kant, philosophy has been obsessed with epistemological questions pertaining to the relationship between mind and world and human access to objects. In The Democracy of Objects, Bryant proposes that we break with this tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Drawing on the object-oriented ontology of Graham Harman, as well as the thought Roy Bhaskar, Gilles Deleuze, Niklas Luhman, Aristotle, Jacques Lacan, Bruno Latour and the developmental systems theorists, Bryant develops a realist ontology that he calls “onticology”. This ontology argues that being is composed entirely of objects, properties, and relations such that subjects themselves are a variant of objects. Drawing on the work of the systems theorists and cyberneticians, Bryant argues that objects are dynamic systems that relate to the world under conditions of operational closure. In this way, he is able to integrate the most vital discoveries of the anti-realists within a realist ontology that does justice to both the material and cultural. Onticology proposes a flat ontology where objects of all sorts and at different scales equally exist without being reducible to other objects and where there are no transcendent entities such as eternal essences outside of dynamic interactions among objects.
Print and downloadable e-book versions will be available soon from the publisher.
Publisher: Open Humanities Press, September 2011
New Metaphysics series
ISBN 978-1-60785-204-9
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