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Hegel and Speculative Realism has two main objectives. Firstly, to
assess the speculative realist formulations of the real regarding
the ‘withdrawn’ object, radical contingency, the absolute
register of extinction, and the current interest in ‘powers
philosophy’, with special attention to their possible relation to
the absolute scope of Hegelian philosophy. Secondly, to invite the
reader to reconsider Hegel in a new way; uncovering rare insights
into his thoughts on astronomy, actuality, the concrete and
non-being. Johns’ inclination is to not mistake the necessary
path to the absolute as the only path. Johns argues that Hegel
describes the unique trajectory of the dialectical relationship
between Nature and Idea as a Spirit oriented by both logical and
physical (spatio-temporal) dimensions. Johns reads this as a theory
of singularity and makes the bold claim that there may be other
paths not taken by the Hegelian spatio-temporal path synonymous
with the dialectic; synthesis, sublation and unfolding. In-fact,
speculative philosophy should not be satisfied to study only
“what exists” but also what “could exist” or what it means
to “inexist” and should entertain multiple modes of potential
becoming between Hegel’s initial triad of logical categories;
Being, Non-Being and Becoming.
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Malchus (Hardcover)
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The Book of Baruch is a Bible pseudepigrapha; a deuterocanonical
work attributed to Baruch ben Neriah, the scribe of the prophet
Jeremiah. The Assumption of Moses is a Jewish apocryphal work
concerning hidden prophecies that Moses revealed to Joshua prior to
the latter inheriting his leadership of the ancient Jews. Together
these works constitute typical examples of popular Biblical texts
which are extra-canonical; most Christian and Jewish groups do not
regard their contents as true. Their origins are definitively
proven to be several centuries after the time they purport to be
from. However, theological scholars have expressed some interest,
particularly given the time and context of the writing; being as
these pseudepigrapha are old texts, they themselves carry value.
This edition contains a lengthy, explanatory introduction by W. O.
E. Oesterley, and the well-regarded translations of Bible scholars
R. H. Charles (for Baruch) and William John Ferrar (for Moses).
This book deals with the possibility of an ontological and
epistemological account of the psychological category 'neurosis'.
Intertwining thoughts from German idealism, Continental philosophy
and psychology, the book shows how neurosis precedes and exists
independently from human experience and lays the foundations for a
non-essentialist, non-rational theory of neurosis; in cognition, in
perception, in linguistics and in theories of object-relations and
vitalism. The personal essays collected in this volume examine such
issues as assimilation, the philosophy of neurosis, aneurysmal
philosophy, and the connection between Hegel and Neurosis, among
others. The volume establishes the connection between a now
redundant psycho-analytic term and an extremely progressive
discipline of Continental philosophy and Speculative realism.
This intriguing and compact book investigates whether or not
philosophy can have a use in the face of 'capitalist realism'
today. Can philosophy study everyday objects like computers and
mobile phones? Can it think of advertising, the population,
electricity, buildings and even dreams as 'objects' in their own
right, which convey particular and novel qualities when analysed?
Johns' book starts from an immanent phenomenological study of
objects, arguing that such objects disclose larger systems of
anthropological meaning and control. The author moves away from the
Husserlian 'essence' of the object and embeds his objects in a
series of 'uses' (or 'equipment' as Heidegger called it). However,
Johns makes a speculative move by positing the very existence of
such 'uses' distinct from the human and first person
phenomenological consciousness. This is when the annals of
phenomenology meet contemporary strands of realism such as
Speculative and Object Oriented models. For Johns, the world is in
a constant state of being utilised, not merely through humans but
through objects and their relations, and not only on a macro scale
but on a micro scale (described by the theories of quantum
physics). The object then becomes a locus of use, yet, importantly,
one that can never be reduced to relations alone. This is because
the author believes that certain aspects of a relation withholds
itself in its act of relating. The mutual dynamics of relation and
property are thus rearticulated in a new light. This novel
description of relation places Johns squarely between relational
ontologies (such as Deleuze, Latour and Garcia) and non-relational
ontologies (Harman). This work is invaluable to researchers and any
reader of contemporary philosophy in the age of advanced technology
and capitalism.
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