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The Democracy of Objects / Levi R. Bryant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryant, Levi R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Humanities.
- Metaphysics.
- Object (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- New Metaphysics
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : Open Humanities Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- "This book is the ontological thesis that all objects, as Ian Bogost has so nicely put it, equally exist while they do not exist equally. The claim that all objects equally exist is the claim that no object can be treated as constructed by another object"-- Google books.
- In The Democracy of Objects Bryant proposes that we break with the epistemological tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Bryant develops a realist ontology, called 'onticology', which argues that being is composed entirely of objects, properties, and relations. Bryant proposes that objects are dynamic systems that relate to the world under conditions of operational closure.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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