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Form and Object : A Treatise on Things
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Garcia, Tristan, 1981-
- Series:
- Speculative Realism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics.
- Object (Philosophy).
- Philosophy.
- Object (Aesthetics)--Philosophy.
- Object (Aesthetics).
- Form (Aesthetics).
- Philosophy, French.
- Shapes.
- Local Subjects:
- Metaphysics.
- Object (Philosophy).
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (489 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place in it.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Translators' Introduction; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Book I Formally; Part I Thing; Part II Thing and World; Part III Being and Comprehending; Book II Objectively; Chapter I Universe; Chapter II Objects and Events; Chapter III Time; Chapter IV Living Things; Chapter V Animals; Chapter VI Humans; Chapter VII Representations; Chapter VIII Arts and Rules; Chapter IX Culture; Chapter X History; Chapter XI Economy of Objects; Chapter XII Values; Chapter XIII Classes; Chapter XIV Genders; Chapter XV Ages of Life
- Chapter XVI DeathCoda: Formally, Objectively; The Chance and the Price; Works Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9780748681518
- 0748681515
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