LEADER 03973 am 22005173u 450 001 9910247445803321 005 20230621140458.0 010 $a9780615797861 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0032.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001283599 035 $a(OAPEN)1004511 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37921 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001283599 100 $a20200123h20132013 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpeculations$hIssue IV $ea journal of speculative realism /$f[edited by Michael Austin, Paul J. Ennis, Fabio Gironi, Thomas Gokey, Robert Jackson] 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2013 210 1$aBrooklyn, NY :$cpunctum books,$d[2013]. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (121 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: ?z 0615797865 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aWith this special volume of Speculations, the editors wanted to challenge the contested term ?speculative realism,? 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, ?[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.? 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 ?speculative realism?: 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 ?Reflections? and ?Proposals,? 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 ?speculative realist tenets.? 606 $aRealism 606 $aRealism$xHistory 610 $aphilosophy 610 $aweird realism 610 $aspeculative realism 610 $aobject-oriented ontology 615 0$aRealism. 615 0$aRealism$xHistory. 676 $a149/.2 700 $aAustin$b Michael$4edt$0801400 702 $aAustin$b Michael 702 $aEnnis$b Paul J. 702 $aGironi$b Fabio$f1983- 702 $aGokey$b Thomas 702 $aJackson$b Robert 801 2$bUkMaJRU 912 $a9910247445803321 996 $aSpeculations$93387295 997 $aUNINA