Form and Object : : A Treatise on Things / / Jon Cogburn, Tristan Garcia, Mark Allan Ohm.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Garcia, Tristan,; Cogburn, Jon,; Ohm, Mark Allan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Speculative Realism : SPRE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (488 p.) :; 3 B/W illustrations

A shockingly novel view of substance that will significantly change contemporary debates about substance and ontological emergenceRead and download the introduction, the series editor's preface and the translators' introduction to Form and Object for free now (pdf)Read a Q&A between Tristan Garcia and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf)Read a Q&A between the translators, Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn, and Speculative Realism series editor Graham Harman (pdf)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.Garcia's original and systematic formal ontology of things strips them of any determination, intensity or depth. From this radical ontological poverty, he develops encyclopaedic regional ontologies of objects. By covering topics as diverse as the universe, events, time, the living, animals, human beings, representation, arts and rules, culture, history, political economy, values, classes, genders, ages of life and death, he shows that speculative metaphysics and ontology are alive and well.Key FeaturesProposes a systematic philosophy essential to the development of metaphysics, the ontology of objects and speculative realismCombines the analytic and continental traditions, and will appeal to philosophers working on either sideApplies his metaphysics to philosophically charged practical issues such as vegetarianism, animal rights, the nature of representation, death, culture and history"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Translators' Introduction -- Series Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- Book I: Formally -- Part I. Thing -- I. No-Matter-What -- II. Less than a Thing, More than a Thing -- III. Something -- IV. Nothing is in Itself -- IV. Nothing is in Itself V. Compactness -- V. Compactness -- VI. Something-Other-than-a-Thing -- Part II: Thing and World -- World -- I. Something-Other-than-a-Thing: The World -- II. Where is a Thing? In the World -- III. Where is the World? -- IV. Something-Other-than-a-Thing: All -- V. The Accumulation of Objects -- Part III: Being and Comprehending -- I. Being is Being Comprehended -- II. That which is a Thing, That which a Thing is -- III. The Two Senses -- IV. In Things: Matter -- V. Outside Things: Form -- 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: Death -- Coda: Formally, Objectively -- The Chance and the Price -- Works Cited -- Index -- Name Index