Form and object : a treatise on things / Tristan Garcia ; translated by Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn.
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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English French |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Speculative realism.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | 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 Features. Proposes a systematic philosophy essential to the development of metaphysics, the ontology of objects and speculative realism Combines the analytic and continental traditions, and will appeal to philosophers working on either side Applies his metaphysics to philosophically charged practical issues such as vegetarianism, animal rights, the nature of representation, death, culture and history |
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| Item Description: | Originally published as: Forme et objet: un traité des choses. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, ©2010. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 462 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-452) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0748681515 9780748681518 |