New Realism and Contemporary Philosophy.

• VerfasserIn: Kroupa, Gregor,
• TeilnehmendeR: Simoniti, Jure.
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)

"In the field of contemporary continental ontology, Speculative realist thinkers are now grappling with the genealogy of their ideas in the history of modern philosophy. The Speculative Realism movement prompted a debate, criticizing the predominant postmodernist orientation in philosophy, which located its origins in Kantian "correlationism" which supposedly ended the period of early modern naive realist metaphysics by showing that the mind and the outside world can only ever be understood as correlates. The debate over a new kind of realism has attracted many supporters and critics. In order to refocus its specific interpretation of modern philosophy in general and of the Kantian gesture in particular, this volume brings together major authors working on contemporary ontology and historians of ideas. It underlines and illustrates the fact that contemporary continental philosophy is rediscovering its past in original ways by productively re-interpreting some of the key concepts of modern philosophy. The perspectives and accounts of the key concepts of the history of philosophy are different in the views of individual contributors, and sometimes radically so, yet the discussion between contemporary realists and their critics shows that the real battleground of new ideas lies not in developing the philosophical motifs of the end of the 20th century, but rather in rethinking the milestones of modern philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 "Philosophical Snuff ": The Speculative Story of the Mind1 -- I Descartes among the Lapp shamans -- II Aristotle the reader of Descartes -- III "Two Selves in the same brain" -- IV Philosophy of the "glorifi ed body" -- Notes -- 2 Leibniz's Linguistic Realism1 -- I Linguistic realism and determinism -- II Leibnizian linguistic ontology -- III Language as calculus -- IV Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 Desert Islands and the Origins of Antirealism1 -- I Fichte's desert island -- II Nietzsche's happy isles -- III Heidegger's island of Delos -- IV Deleuze's oceanic islands -- V Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 To Make Truth: Ontology, Epistemology, Technology -- Three theories of truth -- Truth bearers -- Truth tellers -- Truth makers -- New realist hermeneutics -- Notes -- 5 The Real Scandal -- The question of thinkability -- Transgressive realism -- What's so external about external reality? -- Transgressive philosophers and philosophizing -- Notes -- 6 Realism with a Straight Face: A Response to Leonard Lawlor -- I Realism and the "old metaphysics" -- II Meillassoux, OOO, and dogmatism -- III Dasein, actants, and humanism -- Notes -- 7 A Return to the Pre-critical? On Meillassoux's Speculative Realism and a More General Problem1 -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- 8 Meta-transcendentalism and Error-First Ontology: The Cases of Gilbert Simondon and Catherine Malabou -- I The anatomy of the spiritual subject is the key to the anatomy of natural substance: transcendental materialism as critical-dialectical naturalism -- II Being human is erring: better an ontology of stupidity than a stupid epistemology -- III The idiocy of individuation: Simondon and the becoming-subject of substance.

IV Against preformationism: Malabou's genesis and structure of the transcendental -- V Between history and eternity: what is left of transcendentalism today? -- Notes -- 9 On the Essence and Existence of So-called "Fictional Objects"1 -- I There are no fictional objects -- II Jed Martin, Macron and his bureau exist -- III Jed Martin, Macron and the imagination -- IV Concluding thoughts about Macron -- Notes -- 10 Klein Bottle: Le tube de caption, or, the Subject's Snout1 -- I A Snout in Plato's cave -- II The stupid God of quantum ontology -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.