Claire Colebrook
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748622276
- eISBN:
- 9780748671663
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622276.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book, a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory, explores the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Irigaray, and raises some key ...
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This book, a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory, explores the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Irigaray, and raises some key questions and issues in critical theory. Is it still possible to sustain a transcendental critical project? How do such projects fare in the current terrain of cultural studies and anti-representationalism? The book contributes to ethical and critical theory; situates poststructuralism in its philosophical background and in the sustained problematic of the enlightenment; and offers a critique of various appeals made to a would-be post-metaphysical or post-human culture.Less
This book, a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory, explores the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault and Irigaray, and raises some key questions and issues in critical theory. Is it still possible to sustain a transcendental critical project? How do such projects fare in the current terrain of cultural studies and anti-representationalism? The book contributes to ethical and critical theory; situates poststructuralism in its philosophical background and in the sustained problematic of the enlightenment; and offers a critique of various appeals made to a would-be post-metaphysical or post-human culture.
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This book is the first general book to look at the current philosophical trend known as Speculative Realism. It also compares this philosophy to the work of early-twentieth-century philosopher Alfred ...
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This book is the first general book to look at the current philosophical trend known as Speculative Realism. It also compares this philosophy to the work of early-twentieth-century philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Speculative Realism insists upon the actuality of things or objects apart from the ways that our own (human) minds relate to them and understand them; it is thus part of what has been called the Nonhuman Turn in recent thought. The book gives an explication of the main tenets of Speculative Realism, and engages in close examination of several of its main figures: most notably, Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux. It juxtaposes their thought to that of Whitehead, who anticipated many Speculative Realist ideas, but gives them a very different focus. In the course of this discussion, the book also touches upon other philosophical themes of contemporary concern: panpsychism (the thesis that mentality is incipient in all entities), ecological thought (increasingly necessary in this time of crisis), and aesthetics (which is presented as not merely a human concern). The book serves both as an overall introduction to Speculative Realism, for those who have not encountered it previously, and as a series of arguments within Speculative Realism. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary academic and extra-academic audience; particularly to those in the fields of literature, continental philosophy, post-structuralist theory, art and architecture, and environmental studies.Less
This book is the first general book to look at the current philosophical trend known as Speculative Realism. It also compares this philosophy to the work of early-twentieth-century philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. Speculative Realism insists upon the actuality of things or objects apart from the ways that our own (human) minds relate to them and understand them; it is thus part of what has been called the Nonhuman Turn in recent thought. The book gives an explication of the main tenets of Speculative Realism, and engages in close examination of several of its main figures: most notably, Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux. It juxtaposes their thought to that of Whitehead, who anticipated many Speculative Realist ideas, but gives them a very different focus. In the course of this discussion, the book also touches upon other philosophical themes of contemporary concern: panpsychism (the thesis that mentality is incipient in all entities), ecological thought (increasingly necessary in this time of crisis), and aesthetics (which is presented as not merely a human concern). The book serves both as an overall introduction to Speculative Realism, for those who have not encountered it previously, and as a series of arguments within Speculative Realism. It will be of interest to an interdisciplinary academic and extra-academic audience; particularly to those in the fields of literature, continental philosophy, post-structuralist theory, art and architecture, and environmental studies.
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapter 2 evaluates the philosophy of the leading Speculative Realist Graham Harman from a Whiteheadian perspective.
Chapter 2 evaluates the philosophy of the leading Speculative Realist Graham Harman from a Whiteheadian perspective.
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapter 7 develops a radical aestheticism by reconsidering Kant’s aesthetics in the light of Speculative Realism as well as Whitehead.
Chapter 7 develops a radical aestheticism by reconsidering Kant’s aesthetics in the light of Speculative Realism as well as Whitehead.
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapter 3 considers the Speculative Realist insistence upon the autonomy of other entities in the world from human domination, and traces the roots of this insistence in Whitehead, and before him in ...
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Chapter 3 considers the Speculative Realist insistence upon the autonomy of other entities in the world from human domination, and traces the roots of this insistence in Whitehead, and before him in English Romantic poetry.Less
Chapter 3 considers the Speculative Realist insistence upon the autonomy of other entities in the world from human domination, and traces the roots of this insistence in Whitehead, and before him in English Romantic poetry.
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapter 5 further discusses how the tradition of panpsychism (the insistence that mentality is incipient in all entities in the universe) relates to the claims of Speculative Realism.
Chapter 5 further discusses how the tradition of panpsychism (the insistence that mentality is incipient in all entities in the universe) relates to the claims of Speculative Realism.
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapter 4 considers how the various thinkers in the Speculative Realist movement are drawn either in the direction of panpsychism (Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant), or in that of reductionist ...
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Chapter 4 considers how the various thinkers in the Speculative Realist movement are drawn either in the direction of panpsychism (Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant), or in that of reductionist eliminativism (Ray Brassier, Quentin Meillassoux).Less
Chapter 4 considers how the various thinkers in the Speculative Realist movement are drawn either in the direction of panpsychism (Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant), or in that of reductionist eliminativism (Ray Brassier, Quentin Meillassoux).
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapter 6 considers the Speculative Realist critique of phenomenology and Quentin Meillassoux’s insistence that the world without humanity is deviod of feeling and thought; and develops a new image ...
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Chapter 6 considers the Speculative Realist critique of phenomenology and Quentin Meillassoux’s insistence that the world without humanity is deviod of feeling and thought; and develops a new image of thought that is not reducible to phenomenological intentionality, or subject to Meillassoux’s critiques.Less
Chapter 6 considers the Speculative Realist critique of phenomenology and Quentin Meillassoux’s insistence that the world without humanity is deviod of feeling and thought; and develops a new image of thought that is not reducible to phenomenological intentionality, or subject to Meillassoux’s critiques.
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This book takes a new look at the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) in the light of a number of recent developments in continental philosophy that can be grouped under the rubrics of ...
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This book takes a new look at the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) in the light of a number of recent developments in continental philosophy that can be grouped under the rubrics of “speculative realism” and (to a lesser extent) “new materialism.” The book seeks to relate the divergent programs and goals of these new strains in philosophical thought both positively and negatively to Whitehead’s own project.Less
This book takes a new look at the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) in the light of a number of recent developments in continental philosophy that can be grouped under the rubrics of “speculative realism” and (to a lesser extent) “new materialism.” The book seeks to relate the divergent programs and goals of these new strains in philosophical thought both positively and negatively to Whitehead’s own project.
Steven Shaviro
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816689248
- eISBN:
- 9781452949307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816689248.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapter 1 considers Whitehead’s thought in relation to that of the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.
Chapter 1 considers Whitehead’s thought in relation to that of the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.
