The Universe of Things [electronic resource] : On Speculative Realism

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaviro, Steven.

Series:

Posthumanities

Posthumanities ; v.30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Realism.

Whitehead, Alfred North, -- 1861-1947.

Local Subjects:

Philosophy.

Realism.

Whitehead, Alfred North, -- 1861-1947.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead's work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way of moving beyond solely human perceptions of nature and existence. Now Steven Shaviro maps this quickly emerging speculative realism, which is already dramatically influencing how we interpret reality and our place in a universe in which humans are not the measure of all things. The Universe of Things explores the common insistence of speculative realism on a noncorrelationist thought: that things

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Whitehead and Speculative Realism; 1 Self- Enjoyment and Concern; 2 The Actual Volcano; 3 The Universe of Things; 4 Panpsychism and/or Eliminativism; 5 Consequences of Panpsychism; 6 Noncorrelational Thought; 7 Aisthesis; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4281-1