Introduction: Continental Realism – Picking Up the Pieces, Vladimir Dukić and Marie-Eve Morin; Part I: Responses and Interventions: 1. Empirical Realism and the Great Outdoors: A Critique of Meillassoux, G. Anthony Bruno; 2. The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling, Sean J. McGrath; 3. Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux’s Speculative Realism, Lee Braver; Part II: Convergences and Correctives: 4. Kantian Realisms: The Noumenal, Causation, and Grounding, Allison Assiter; 5. Pessimism or the Importance of Indifference, Time, and Violence in Realist Ontologies, Rick Elmore; 6. Being (with) Objects, Anna Mudde; Part III: Challenges and Prospects: 7. Merleau-Ponty and the Challenge of Realism, or How (Not) To Go Beyond Phenomenology, Marie-Eve Morin; 8. The Radical Contingency of Temporality, Correlation, and Philosophy: Merleau-Ponty’s Indirect Ontology Contra Meillassoux’s Hyper-Anthropocentric Idealism, David Morris; 9. The Realist Challenge: Thinking the Reality of Language after Deconstruction, Peter Gratton; Notes on Contributors; Index.