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Author Garcia, Tristan, 1981- author.

Title Form and object : a treatise on things / Tristan Garcia ; translated by Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 462 pages) : illustrations
Series Speculative realism
Speculative realism.
Contents Part I. Thing -- Part II. Thing and world -- Part III. Being and comprehending
Summary 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
Notes Originally published as: Forme et objet: un traité des choses. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, ©2010
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-452) and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Object (Aesthetics)
Form (Aesthetics)
Philosophy, French.
Shapes -- Philosophy
form (general concept)
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Form (Aesthetics)
Object (Aesthetics)
Philosophy, French
Form
Objekt Philosophie
Welt
Form Electronic book
Author Ohm, Mark Allan, translator.
Cogburn, Jon, translator.
ISBN 9780748681518
0748681515
9780748681525
0748681523
Other Titles Forme et objet. English