Continental Realism and its Discontents

ISBN-13: 9781474421140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str.

Marie-Eve Morin

Opis

10 critical essays challenge speculative realism from perspectives from German idealism to phenomenology and deconstruction

Speculative realism challenges philosophical approaches and traditions for supposedly failing to do justice to the real world. Taking this realist challenge seriously, Continental Realism and Its Discontents refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.

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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.