The thought of matter : materialism, conceptuality and the transcendence of immanence / Richard A. Lee Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Richard A., Jr., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Philosophical projections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materialism.

Matter.

Physical Description:

x, 142 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]

Summary:

Discussions of materialism have exploded in recent years. From the speculative realism/materialism of Quentin Meillassaux to the New Materialism of many modern Marxisms, the interest in a return to, or rehabilitation of materialism is on the rise. What is not analyzed in many of these discussions, however, is a trenchant methodological and metaphysical problem lying at the basis of any philosophical materialism: If matter is simply that which is other than thought, then how can it be thought without drawing it away from its materiality? On the other hand, if one assumes a direct access to matter, to this other, what are the conditions of that access? Are they material conditions or cognitive (thought) conditions? Does what would present itself immediately present, at the same time, the conditions that allow it to be presented? If not, then we are closer to a theology of matter and further from a philosophical materialism. The Thought of Matter investigates this metaphysical and methodological problem through Aristotle, Marx, Adorno, Althusser, Duns Scotus, Hobbes and Benjamin in order to show that a philosophical materialism necessarily requires the concepts and tools of thought in order to allow the otherness of matter to emerge in its own materiality. Book jacket.

Contents:

Aristotle's errant path

Marx, Althusser, and Adorno

Duns Scotus: materiality as singularity

Hobbes on materialism as social philosophy

Benjamin and Adorno on the social need for materialism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

1783486430

9781783486427

1783486422

9781783486434

OCLC:

917343303

Publisher Number:

99966063112