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Form and Object
Tristan Garcia
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Description for Form and Object
Paperback. What is a thing? What is an object? The author decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative nature of objects and in so doing provides deep insights about the world and our place in it. Translator(s): Ohm, Mark Allan; Cogburn, Jon. Series: Speculative Realism. Num Pages: 464 pages, 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 233 x 26. Weight in Grams: 756.
This is a shockingly new view of 'things' that will revolutionise contemporary ontological debates about substance. What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative nature of objects and in so doing provides deep insights about the world and our place in it. Tristan 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, ... Read more
This is a shockingly new view of 'things' that will revolutionise contemporary ontological debates about substance. What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative nature of objects and in so doing provides deep insights about the world and our place in it. Tristan 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Speculative Realism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748681501
SKU
V9780748681501
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About Tristan Garcia
Tristan Garcia received his PhD from the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he worked closely with Alain Badiou. Jon Cogburn is Assistant Chair in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. Mark Allan Ohm is an MA student in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University.
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