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100 _aGarcia, Tristan
245 _aForm and object: a treatise on things
260 _aEdinburgh:
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c2014.
300 _axxv, 462p.:
_bpbk.;
_c24.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aA shockingly novel view of substance that will significantly change contemporary debates about substance and ontological emergence Read and download the introduction, the series editor's preface and the translators' introduction to Form and Object for free now (pdf) Read a Q&A between Tristan Garcia and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf) Read a Q&A between the translators, Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn, and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf) 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 https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-form-and-object.html
650 _aFlat ontology
650 _aMetaphysics
650 _aObject-oriented Ontology
650 _aSpeculative Realism
700 _aOhm, Mark Allan
_eTranslator
700 _aCogburn, Jon
_eTranslator
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