This is a shockingly new view of 'things' that will revolutionise
contemporary ontological debates about substance. 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. It
proposes a systematic philosophy essential to the development of
metaphysics, the ontology of objects and speculative realism. It
combines the analytic and continental traditions, and will appeal
to philosophers working on either side. It applies his metaphysics
to philosophically charged practical issues such as vegetarianism,
animal rights, the nature of representation, death, culture and
history.
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