Garcian meditations : the dialectics of persistence in Form and Object / Jon Cogburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cogburn, Jon, author.

Series:

Speculative realism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garcia, Tristan, 1981- Form and object; a treatise on things.

Garcia, Tristan.

Object (Philosophy).

Form (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xviii, 238 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2017]

Summary:

A critical guide to Garcia's systematic metaphysical treatise Form and Object, The publication of Form and Object: A Treatise on Things by Tristan Garcia, Prix de Flore-winning novelist, philosopher and essayist, was a genuine event in the history of philosophy. Situating this event within classical, modern and contemporary dialectical space, Jon Cogburn evaluates Garcia's metaphysics, differential ontology and militant anti-reductionism through a series of seemingly incompatible oppositions concerning: substance and process, analysis and dialectic, simple and whole, and discovery and creation. Cogburn also includes a critical assessment of the consequences of Garcia's philosophy, the various unresolved problems in his treatise and the future prospects of speculative metaphysics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Neither Substance Nor Process I: Anti-Reductionism 10

2 Neither Analytic Nor Dialectic I: Horizon 41

3 Neither Analytic Nor Dialectic II: The World of Object-Oriented Ontology 60

4 No-Matter-What 91

5 Neither Substance Nor Process II: Two Modes 105

6 Neither Matter Nor World: Thing 131

7 Neither Discovered Nor Created I: Universe and Matter 153

8 Neither Substance Not Process III: Events, Time, and Life 168

9 Neither Discovered Nor Created II: Beauty, Truth, and Goodness 187

10 Neither Substance Nor Process IV: Existence and Resistance 206.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index.

ISBN:

9781474415910

1474415911

9781474415941

1474415946

OCLC:

957680691