| Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy's Other Possibility Contributor(s): Benjamin, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438456344 ISBN-13: 9781438456348 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this original work of philosophy, Andrew Benjamin calls for a new understanding of relationality, one inaugurating a philosophical mode of thought that takes relations among people and events as primary, over and above conceptions of simple particularity or abstraction. Drawing on the work of Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Heidegger, Benjamin shows that a relational ontology has always been at work within the history of philosophy even though philosophy has been reluctant to affirm its presence. Arguing for what he calls anoriginal relationality, he demonstrates that the already present status of a relational ontology is philosophy's other possibility. Touching on a range of topics including community, human-animal relations, and intimacy, Benjamin's thoughtful and penetrating distillation of ancient, modern, and twentieth-century philosophical ideas, and his judicious attention to art and literature make this book a model for original philosophical thinking and writing. |