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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460258103321

Autore

Shaviro Steven

Titolo

The Universe of Things [[electronic resource] ] : On Speculative Realism

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014

ISBN

1-4529-4281-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Posthumanities ; ; v.30

Disciplina

192

Soggetti

Philosophy

Realism

Whitehead, Alfred North, -- 1861-1947

Philosophy & Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Whitehead and Speculative Realism; 1 Self- Enjoyment and Concern; 2 The Actual Volcano; 3 The Universe of Things; 4 Panpsychism and/or Eliminativism; 5 Consequences of Panpsychism; 6 Noncorrelational Thought; 7 Aisthesis; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead's work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way of moving beyond solely human perceptions of nature and existence. Now Steven Shaviro maps this quickly emerging speculative realism, which is already dramatically influencing how we interpret reality and our place in a universe in which humans are not the measure of all things. The Universe of Things explores the common insistence of speculative realism on a noncorrelationist thought: that things