Realist magic : objects, ontology, causality / Timothy Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Timothy, 1968- author.

Series:

New metaphysics.

New Metaphysics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Object (Philosophy).

Ontology.

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Open Humanities Press 2013

Ann Arbor, Michigan : Open Humanities Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

textfile

Summary:

Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues, Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of figures

Introduction

Like an illusion

Magic birth

Magic life

Magic death

Conclusion

Permissions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references.

CC BY-SA

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (oapen, viewed Jun. 15, 2016).

ISBN:

9781607852025 (ebook)

1607852020 (ebook)

OCLC:

870532677