Form and Object: A Treatise on Things - Couverture souple

Garcia, Tristan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0748681507 ISBN 13 : 9780748681501

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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. Tristan 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tristan Garcia received his PhD from the Ecole Normale Superieure, where he worked closely with Alain Badiou. Jon Cogburn is Assistant Chair in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. Mark Allan Ohm is an MA student in the Department of French Studies at Louisiana State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748681507
• ISBN 13: 9780748681501
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 488
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