Indexicalism : : The Metaphysics of Paradox / / Hilan Bensusan.

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• VerfasserIn: Bensusan, Hilan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Speculative Realism : SPRE
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Proposes a radical new metaphysics where reality is not substantive but is indexicalPuts forward a new theory of metaphysics where the furniture of the universe is deictic and substantives are conceived as thoroughly situateExtends the idea of metaphysics as transcendence, proposed by Levinas, to a process philosophy where the Other is not only human but ultimately the Great OutdoorsPresents an approach to perception that makes it close to a conversation which portrays conceptual mediation as a special case of the Whiteheadian notion of importanceHilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and indexical metaphysics that adds a paradoxical new chapter to the critique of metaphysics. Bensusan articulates a metaphysical view of the other, both human and non-human (or the Great Outdoors as Meillassoux called it), that can never be totalised into a single or univocal whole. An innovative account of perception is developed, as a matter of our irreducibly situated relationship to this non-totalisable Outdoors.In the book's coda, Bensusan underscores the social-political implications of this radical metaphysics in a postcolonial context in a meditation on the sites of Potosi in the Andes and Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon.Engaging with analytic and continental philosophy, Bensusan enlists Levinas, Whitehead, Heidegger, Kripke, Deleuze, Derrida, Benso, Harman, Garcia, Cogburn, McDowell and Haraway. He does so in such a way that proves to be transformative both for crucial aspects of their work and for contemporary approaches to thinking about what it means to be in our world and to reckon with the responsibilities that press upon us from the outside.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: Reality and Speculation -- 1 Indexicalism: A Paradoxico-Metaphysics -- 2 The Metaphysics of the Others -- 3 The Hospitality of Perception -- Coda: The Circumscription of Potosí -- Bibliography -- Index