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The Thought of Matter - Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence (Hardcover)
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The Thought of Matter - Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophical Projections
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Discussions of materialism have exploded in recent years. From the
speculative realism/materialism of Quentin Meillassoux to the New
Materialism of many modern Marxisms, the interest in a return to or
rehabilitation of materialism is on the rise. What is not analyzed
in many of these discussions, however, is a trenchant
methodological and metaphysical problem lying at the basis of any
philosophical materialism: if matter is simply that which is other
than thought, then how can it be thought without drawing it away
from its materiality? On the other hand, if one assumes a direct
access to matter, to this other, what are the conditions of that
access? Are they material conditions or cognitive (thought)
conditions? Does what would present itself immediately present, at
the same time, the conditions that allow it to be presented? If
not, then we are closer to a theology of matter and further from a
philosophical materialism. The Thought of Matter investigates this
metaphysical and methodological problem through Aristotle, Marx,
Adorno, Althusser, Duns Scotus, Hobbes, and Benjamin in order to
show that a philosophical materialism necessarily requires the
concepts and tools of thought in order to allow the otherness of
matter to emerge in its own materiality.
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