Introduction to New Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to New Realism write by Maurizio Ferraris. This book was released on 2014-12-18. Introduction to New Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction to New Realism provides an overview of the movement of contemporary thought named New Realism, by its creator and most celebrated practitioner, Maurizio Ferraris. Sharing significant concerns and features with Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, New Realism can be said to be one of the most prescient philosophical positions today. Its desire to overcome the postmodern antirealism of Kantian origin, and to reassert the importance of truth and objectivity in the name of a new Enlightenment, has had an enormous resonance both in Europe and in the US. Introduction to New Realism is the first volume dedicated to exposing this continental movement to an anglophone audience. Featuring a foreword by the eminent contemporary philosopher and leading exponent of Speculative Realism, Iain Hamilton Grant, the book begins by tracing the genesis of New Realism, and outlining its central theoretical tenets, before opening onto three distinct sections. The first, 'Negativity', is a critique of the postmodern idea that the world is constructed by our conceptual schemas, all the more so as we have entered the age of digitality and virtuality. The second thesis, 'positivity', proposes the fundamental ontological assertion of New Realism, namely that not only are there parts of reality that are independent of thought, but these parts are also able to act causally over thought and the human world. The third thesis, 'normativity,' applies New Realism to the sphere of the social world. Finally, an afterword written by two young scholars explains in more detail the relationship between New Realism and other forms of contemporary realism.
Fields of Sense
Fields of Sense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fields of Sense write by Markus Gabriel. This book was released on 2015-01-14. Fields of Sense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Markus Gabriel proposes a radical form of ontological pluralism that divorces ontology from metaphysics, understood as the most fundamental theory of absolutely everything (the world). He argues that the concept of existence is incompatible with the exist
Introduction to Scholastic Realism
Introduction to Scholastic Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to Scholastic Realism write by John Peterson. This book was released on 1999. Introduction to Scholastic Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholastic realism is a type of moderate realism. As such, it falls between platonism and nominalism on the issue of universals. Universals, strictly speaking, only exist in minds, but they are founded on real relations of similarity in the world. Scholastic realism goes beyond moderate realism and affirms that universals also exist transcendently; but instead of having a separated existence, transcendent universals exist in God's mind. This work argues that moderate realism is implied by the correct analysis of predication and persons, and that Scholastic realism, in particular, is implied by the correct analysis of knowledge, truth, and right action.
Speculative Realism
Speculative Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Speculative Realism write by Graham Harman. This book was released on 2018-09-19. Speculative Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On April 27, 2007, the first Speculative Realism (SR) workshop was held at Goldsmiths, University of London, featuring four young philosophers whose ideas were loosely allied. Over the ensuing decade, the ideas of SR spread from philosophy to the arts, architecture, and numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. SR has been arguably the most influential new current in continental philosophy since the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari found their second wind in the 1990s. But what is SR? This book is the first general overview by one of its original members, focusing on the aesthetic, ethical, ontological, and political themes of greatest importance to the movement. Graham Harman provides a balanced but critical assessment of his original SR colleagues – Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Quentin Meillassoux – along with a clear summary of his own Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). A number of central philosophical questions tie the four chapters together: What exactly is "correlationism," the chief enemy of SR? What are the stakes of philosophical realism, and is such realism better served by mathematics and the natural sciences, or by a broader model of cognitive activity that includes aesthetics? This book covers both the historical and conceptual development of the movement, providing a first-rate introduction for students, aided by helpful end-of-chapter study questions chosen by Harman himself. SR, Harman shows, is a vital and fast-developing field in contemporary philosophy.
End of Phenomenology
End of Phenomenology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook End of Phenomenology write by Tom Sparrow. This book was released on 2014-06-04. End of Phenomenology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shows how speculative realism is replacing phenomenology as the beacon of realism in contemporary Continental philosophy.
