Object-oriented ontology: a new theory of everything

By:

Harman, Graham

Series: Pelican BookPublication details: Great Britain: Pelican, 2018.Description: 295p.: ill.; pbk.: 18cmISBN:

9780241269152

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

111 HAR

Summary: We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as special, radically different in kind from all other objects. But as Graham Harman, one of the theory's leading exponents, shows, Object-Oriented Ontology rejects the idea of human specialness: the world, he states, is clearly not the world as manifest to humans. At the heart of this philosophy is the idea that objects - whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human or non-human - are mutually autonomous. In this brilliant new introduction, Graham Harman lays out the history, ideas and impact of Object-Oriented Ontology, taking in everything from art and literature, politics and natural science along the way. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295720/object-oriented-ontology-by-harman-graham/9780241269152

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Includes notes, and index.

We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as special, radically different in kind from all other objects. But as Graham Harman, one of the theory's leading exponents, shows, Object-Oriented Ontology rejects the idea of human specialness: the world, he states, is clearly not the world as manifest to humans. At the heart of this philosophy is the idea that objects - whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human or non-human - are mutually autonomous. In this brilliant new introduction, Graham Harman lays out the history, ideas and impact of Object-Oriented Ontology, taking in everything from art and literature, politics and natural science along the way.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295720/object-oriented-ontology-by-harman-graham/9780241269152

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