| Form and Object: A Treatise on Things Contributor(s): Garcia, Tristan (Author), Ohm, Mark Allan (Translator), Cogburn, Jon (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0748681493 ISBN-13: 9780748681495 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $137.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Philosophy | Criticism - Philosophy | Movements - Realism |
| Series: Speculative Realism |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (2.35 lbs) 488 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects and in so doing gives 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. |