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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.
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.
Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d’Ailly. Confronting the scientific status of theology, Lee argues that the main issue is how to provide a “rational ground” for existing singulars. The book exposes how, on the eve of modernity, existing singulars were freed from the constraints of rational ground.
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