Continental realism and its discontents / edited by Marie-Eve Morin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morin, Marie-Eve, Author.

Contributor:

Morin, Marie-Eve, editor.

Series:

New Perspectives in Ontology

New Perspectives in Ontology : NPO

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

10 critical essays challenge speculative realism from perspectives from German idealism to phenomenology and deconstructionSpeculative realism challenges philosophical approaches and traditions for supposedly failing to do justice to the real world. Taking this realist challenge seriously, Continental Realism and Its Discontents refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.Key FeaturesChallenges the current anti-realist reading of key post-Kantian thinkersProposes alternative forms of realism to speculative realism or object-oriented ontologyContributorsAlison Assiter, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.Lee Braver, University of South Florida, USA.G. Anthony Bruno, McGill University, Canada.Vladimir Dukić, University of Alberta, Canada. Rick Elmore, Appalachian State University, USA. Peter Gratton, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Sean J. McGrath, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.Marie-Eve Morin, University of Alberta in Edmonton, CanadaDavid Morris, Concordia University, Canada. Anna Mudde, Campion College at the University of Regina, Canada."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Continental Realism – Picking Up the Pieces

Part I: Responses and Interventions

1 Empirical Realism and the Great Outdoors: A Critique of Meillassoux

2 The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling

3 Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux’s Speculative Realism

Part II: Convergences and Correctives

4 Kantian Realisms: The Noumenal, Causation and Grounding

5 Pessimism, or The Importance of Indifference, Time and Suffering in Realist Ontologies

6 Being (with) Objects

Part III: Challenges and Prospects

7 Merleau-Ponty and the Challenge of Realism, or How (Not) to Go beyond Phenomenology

8 The Radical Contingency of Temporality, Correlation and Philosophy: Merleau-Ponty’s Indirect Ontology contra Meillassoux’s Hyper-Anthropocentric Idealism

9 The Realist Challenge: Thinking the Reality of Language after Deconstruction

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-2115-6

1-4744-3867-9

OCLC:

1306538772