Guerrilla Metaphysics : Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harman, Graham.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Phenomenology.

Philosophy, Modern.

Local Subjects:

Metaphysics.

Phenomenology.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Other Title:

Guerrilla Metaphysics

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Open Court, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The current fashions in both analytic and continental philosophy are staunchly anti-metaphysical. There is supposedly no way to talk about the world itself ? the philosopher is confined to antiseptic discussions of language, or of other modes of human access to the world. In this provocative work, Graham Harman expands the discussion from his previous book, Tool-Being, arguing for a theory of ""the carpentry of things"" ? a more accessible way of viewing the world that incorporates ideas from Husserl, Levinas, Lingis, and other philosophers.

Contents:

Title Page; Introduction; PART ONE - The Carnal Phenomenologists; [1] - Concreteness in the Depths; A. The Most High; B. A Hidden Agreement; C. Unnatural Objects; [2] - Two Borderlands of Intentionality; A. Objectifying Acts; B. The Blackbird; C. Objects and Qualities; D. Two Borderlands; [3] - Bathing in the Ether; A. Passivity; B. Quality without Substance; C. Satisfied with Appearance; D. The Ether; [4] - The Style of Things; A. Sensation; B. The Body; C. The In-Itself for-Us; D. Flesh; E. Style; [5] - The Levels; A. Imperative Objects; B. The Senses under Command; C. Levels of the World

PART TWO - Setting the Table[6] - Objects; A. The Revival of Substance; B. Vacuums Everywhere; C. The Wheel of Objects and Relations; D. The Quintessence; [7] - The Problem of Objects; A. Vicarious Cause; B. Whole and Part; C. Worlds Inside of Vacuums; D. Firewalls; [8] - Metaphor; A. Execution versus Presentation; B. The Plasma of Things; C. Reality without Presence; D. The Wolf-System; [9] - Humor; A. Reduced to Mechanisms; B. Sincerity, Comedy, and Charm; C. Allure; PART THREE - Quadruple Philosophy; [10] - The Root of Vicarious Causation; A. Severed Qualities

B. A Downward Spiral of ObjectsC. Elements; [11] - Vicarious Causation; A. The Object and Its Parts; B. The Object and Its Notes; C. Four Questions in One; [12] - Some Implications; A. Not Critique; B. Gradations; C. Time and Space; D. The Carnival of Things; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Copyright Page

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-28561-4

9786613285614

0-8126-9772-3

OCLC:

751694949