Tristan Garcia

Form and Object (eBook, PDF)

A Treatise on Things
Übersetzer: Ohm, Mark Allan; Cogburn, Jon

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A shockingly novel view of substance that will significantly change contemporary debates about substance and ontological emergence

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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 Features

• Proposes a systematic philosophy essential to the development of metaphysics, the ontology of objects and speculative realism
• Combines the analytic and continental traditions, and will appeal to philosophers working on either side
• Applies his metaphysics to philosophically charged practical issues such as vegetarianism, animal rights, the nature of representation, death, culture and history

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748681518
• Artikelnr.: 43668081

Autorenporträt

Tristan Garcia is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon and an award-winning novelist. He is the author of La vie intense: Une obsession moderne, translated into English as The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Forme et objet. Un traité des choses (PUF, 2011), translated into English as Form and Object: A Treatise on Things (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). His other philosophical works include L'Image and Nous. His fictional works include Les cordelettes de Browser, En l'absence de classement final and Mémoires de la jungle. In 2008, he received the Prix de Flore for La meilleure part des hommes, translated into English as Hate: A Romance. Mark Allan Ohm is a graduate research assistant in the Department of French Studies and the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. He is lead editor of the English translation project of the Atelier de métaphysique et d'ontologie contemporaines at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Jon Cogburn is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is co-translator of The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession. Together with Mark Ohm, he is the co-translator of Tristan Garcia's Form and Object, and is the author of Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).