This remarkable book by one of Europe’s leading philosophers is a welcome antidote to the idealist tendencies that have marked so much philosophy in recent centuries. On the one hand it clearly and incisively documents the idealists’ errors. On the other hand it outlines a complete metaphysical theory of realism, thereby launching a new vision for the future of philosophy.

Barry Smith, University at Buffalo, New York

Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the spell of Immanuel Kant's transcendental philosophy. In this book, Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant in a book of two parts, written 21 years apart. The first part of the book, 'Observation', originally published in 2001, lays the foundations of Ferraris' New Realism, foreshadowing the realist turn that has become characteristic of 21st century philosophy. The second part, 'Speculation', written in 2021, outlines a complete metaphysical theory of realism. What ties both parts of the book together is the the notion of hysteresis, the ability of effects to survive even when their causes have ceased to exist.
Les mer
One of Europe’s leading realist philosophers restores the role of the external world to modern philosophy.
Part I. Meditation Part II. Observation 1. Introduction: Ontology and Ecology 2. The Problem Is Not The Platypus. It’s Kant. 3. Aesthetics 4. Logic 5. Farewell to the Transcendental 6. What Is It Like To Be A Slipper? Part III. Speculation Introduction: Where Do We Come From? 1. What Is Hysteresis? 2. Recording 3. Iteration 4. Alteration 5. Interruption Part IV. Recollection Bibliography; Index
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Written by one of the launching members of the New Realism movement

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781474478489
Publisert
2024-01-12
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press; Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
376

Forfatter
Redigert og oversatt av

Om bidragsyterne

Maurizio Ferraris is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin. He has written more than fifty books that have been translated into several languages. His books in English are History of Hermeneutics (Humanities Press, 1996), with Jacques Derrida - A Taste for the Secret (Blackwell, 2011), Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces (Fordham University Press, 2012), Goodbye Kant! (SUNY, 2013), Where are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone (Fordham University Press, 2014), Manifesto of New Realism (SUNY, 2014), Introduction to New Realism (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Positive Realism (Zero Books, 2015). Sarah De Sanctis is an academic translator specialising in philosophy. She translated these books by Maurizio Ferraris, Where are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone (Fordham University Press, 2014) and Introduction to New Realism (Bloomsbury, 2014). She is co-editor of Breaking the Spell: Contemporary Realism under Discussion (Mimesis International, 2015).