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Tool-being : Heidegger and the metaphyics of objects
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ISBN: 0812694449 9780812694444 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chicago : Open Court,

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Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) influenced the work of such diverse thinkers as Sartre and Derrida. In Tool-Being, Graham Harman departs from the prevailing linguistic approach to analytic and continental philosophy in favor of Heideggerian object-oriented research into the secret contours of objects. Written in a colorful style, it will be of interest to anyone open to new trends in present-day philosophy.


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Prince of networks : Bruno Latour and metaphysics.
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ISBN: 9780980544060 9780980666526 Year: 2009 Publisher: Melbourne re.press

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Prince of Networks is the first treatment of Bruno Latour specifically as a philosopher. It has been eagerly awaited by readers of both Latour and Harman since their public discussion at the London School of Economics in February 2008. Part One covers four key works that display Latour’s underrated contributions to metaphysics: Irreductions, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern, and Pandora’s Hope. Harman contends that Latour is one of the central figures of contemporary philosophy, with a highly original ontology centered in four key concepts: actants, irreduction, translation, and alliance. In Part Two, Harman summarizes Latour’s most important philosophical insights, including his status as the first ‘secular occasionalist.’ The problem of translation between entities is no longer solved by the fiat of God (Malebranche) or habit (Hume), but by local mediators. Working from his own ‘object-oriented’ perspective, Harman also criticizes the Latourian focus on the relational character of actors at the expense of their cryptic autonomous reality. This book forms a remarkable interface between Latour’s Actor-Network Theory and the Speculative Realism of Harman and his confederates. It will be of interest to anyone concerned with the emergence of new trends in the humanities following the long postmodernist interval.


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Bruno Latour : reassembling the political
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ISBN: 9780745333991 0745333990 9780745334004 0745334008 9781783711970 1783711973 9781783711994 178371199X 9781783711987 1783711981 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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A biography of Bruno Latour, the sociologist and anthropologist, which focuses on his political philosophy.


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Towards speculative realism : essays and lectures.
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ISBN: 9781846943942 1846943949 Year: 2010 Publisher: Winchester Zero

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Immaterialism : objects and social theory
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ISBN: 9781509500970 9781509500963 1509500960 1509500979 1509500995 9781509500994 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Polity

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Art and objects
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ISBN: 9781509512683 9781509512676 1509512683 1509512675 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge Polity Press

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In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled to communicate indirectly, allusively, or elliptically, rather than in the clear propositional terms that are often taken - wrongly - to be the sole stuff of genuine philosophy. Conceiving of philosophy and art in this way allows us to reread key debates in aesthetic theory and to view art history in a different way. The formalist criticism of Greenberg and Fried is rejected for its refusal to embrace the innate theatricality and deep multiplicity of every artwork. This has consequences for art criticism, making pictorial content more important than formalism thinks but less entwined with the social sphere than anti-formalism holds. It has consequences for art history too, as the surrealists, David, and Poussin, among others, gain in importance. The close link between aesthetics and ontology also invites a new periodization of modern philosophy as a whole, and the habitual turn away from Kant's thing-in-itself towards an increase in philosophical "immanence" is shown to be a false dawn. This major work will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, art history and cultural theory.


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Object-oriented ontology : a new theory of everything
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ISBN: 9780241269152 Year: 2018 Publisher: London : Pelican,

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Weird realism : Lovecraft and philosophy
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ISBN: 9781780992525 1780992521 Year: 2012 Publisher: Wichester, UK ; Washington : Zero Books,

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The quadruple object.
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ISBN: 1846947006 9781846947001 Year: 2011 Publisher: Winchester Zero

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"In this book the metaphysical system of Graham Harman is presented in lucid form, aided by helpful diagrams"--Back cover.


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Quentin Meillassoux
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ISBN: 9780748699957 9780748693467 9780748693450 9780748693474 Year: 2022 Publisher: Edinburgh

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