Form and Object: A Treatise on Things

ISBN-13: 9780748681501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 488 str.

University of Lyon) Garcia Tristan (Professor of Philosophy

Opis

What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposed derivative nature of objects and in so doing provides deep insights about 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Translators’ Introduction; List of Figures; Introduction; Book I: Formally; Part I: Thing; I. No-matter-what; To matter; That no-matter-what became something; Thing; II. Less than a thing, more than a Thing; Substance; The vacuity of distinguishing material things from non-material things; Nothing; III. Something; Solitude; IV. Nothing is in itself; Self; V. Compactness; Impossible; VI. Something-other-than-a-thing; Going outside the world is a way of entering inside it; Part II: Thing and World; World; I. Something-other-than-a-thing: the world; II. Where is a thing? In the world; Without me; III. Where is the world?; Exception; What a big thing is; Many worlds; IV. Something-other-than-a-thing: all; Many; V. The accumulation of objects; One, several, whole, equal; Equal; Part III: Being and Comprehending; I. Being is being comprehended; Being is secondary; In; Between; II. That which is a thing, that which a thing is; On meaning; III. The two senses; Tragedy; On interests; Primary; IV. In things: matter; On the composition of a thing; Limit; Hand prints; V. Outside things: form; Forms; Book II: Objectively; Chapter I: Universe; Chapter II: Objects and Events; Chapter III: Time; Chapter IV: Living Things; Chapter V: Animals; Chapter VI: Humans; Chapter VII: Representations; Chapter VIII: Arts and Rules; Chapter IX: Culture; Chapter X: History; Chapter XI: Economy of Objects; Chapter XII: Values; Chapter XIII: Classes; Chapter XIV: Genders; Chapter XV: Ages of Life; Chapter XVI: Death; Coda: Formally, objectively; The Chance and the Price; Works Cited; Index.