Speculations IV: Speculations: A Journal of Speculative

Speculations IV: Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism

With this special issue of Speculations, the editors wanted to challenge the contested term â€œspeculative realism,â€offering scholars who have some involvement with it a space to voice their opinions of the network of ideas commonly associated with the name. Whilst undoubtedly born under speculative realist auspices, Speculations has never tried to be the gospel of a dogmatic speculative realist church, but rather instead to cultivate the best theoretical lines sprouting from the resurgence, in the last few years, of those speculative and realist concerns attempting to break free from some of the most stringent constraints of critique. Sociologist Randall Collins observed that, unlike other fields of intellectual inquiry, â€œ[p]hilosophy has the peculiarity of periodically shifting its own grounds, but always in the direction of claiming or at least seeking the standpoint of greatest generality and importance.â€ If this is the case, to deny that a shift of grounds has indeed become manifest in these early decades of the twenty-first century would be, at best, a sign of a severe lack of philosophical sensitivity. On the other hand, whether or not this shift has been towards greater importance (and in respect to what?) is not only a legitimate but a necessary question to ask. Whatever the intrinsic value in the name, the contributors to this volume have all engaged, more or less directly, with a critical analysis of the vices and virtues of â€œspeculative realismâ€: from the extent to which its adversarial stance towards previous philosophical stances is justified to whether it succeeds (or fails) to address satisfactorily the concerns that ostensibly motivate it, through to an assessment of the methods of dissemination of its core ideas. The contributions are divided in two sections, titled â€œReflectionsâ€ and â€œProposals,â€ describing, with some inevitable overlap, two kinds of approach to the question of speculative realism: one geared towards its retrospective and its critical appraisal, and the other concerned with the positive proposition of alternative or parallel approaches to it. It is believed that the final result, in its heterogeneity, will be of better service to the philosophical community than a dubiously univocal descriptive recapitulation of â€œspeculative realist tenets.â€ Speculations IV includes: Editorial Introduction â€” PART 1. REFLECTIONS: Lee Braver, â€œOn Not Settling the Issue of Realismâ€ â€” Levi R. Bryant, â€œPolitics and Speculative Realismâ€ â€” Graham Harman, â€œThe Current State of Speculative Realismâ€ â€” Eileen A. Joy, â€œWeird Readingâ€ â€” Adam Kotsko, â€œA Dangerous Supplement: Speculative Realism, Academic Blogging, and the Future of Philosophyâ€ â€” Christopher Norris, â€œSpeculative Realism: Interim Report with Just a Few Caveatsâ€ â€” Jon Roffe, â€œThe Future of an Illusionâ€ â€” Daniel Sacilotto, â€œRealism and Representation: On the Ontological Turnâ€ /// PART 2. PROPOSALS: Jeffrey A. Bell, â€œThe World is an Egg: Realism, Mathematics, and the Thresholds of Differenceâ€ â€” Manuel DeLanda, â€œOntological Commitmentsâ€ â€” Markus Gabriel, â€œThe Meaning of â€˜Existenceâ€™ and the Contingency of Senseâ€ â€” Peter Gratton, â€œPost-Deconstructive Realism: Itâ€™s About Timeâ€ â€” Adrian Johnston, â€œPoints of Forced Freedom: Eleven (More) Theses on Materialismâ€ â€” Paul M. Livingston, â€œRealism and the Infiniteâ€ â€” John Mullarkey, â€œHow to Behave Like a Non-Philosopher, Or, Speculative Versus Revisionary Metaphysicsâ€ â€” Dylan Trigg, â€œThe Horror of Darkness: Toward an Unhuman Phenomenologyâ€
Country USA
Brand Punctum Books
Manufacturer Punctum Books
Binding Paperback
EANs 9780615797861
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Punctum Books
Manufacturer	Punctum Books
Binding	Paperback
EANs	9780615797861
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Speculations IV: Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism

You might also like...