Guerrilla Metaphysics Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things,9780812694567

Guerrilla Metaphysics Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things

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ISBN13: 9780812694567
ISBN10: 0812694562
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Pub. Date: 2005-08-04
Publisher(s): INGRAM
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Summary

In Guerrilla Metaphysics, Graham Harman develops further the object-oriented philosophy first proposed in Tool-Being. Today’s fashionable philosophies often treat metaphysics as a petrified relic of the past, and hold that future progress requires an ever further abandonment of all claims to discuss reality in itself. Guerrilla Metaphysics makes the opposite assertion, challenging the dominant "philosophy of access" (both continental and analytic) that remains quarantined in discussions of language, perception, or literary texts. Philosophy needs a fresh resurgence of the things themselves—not merely the words or appearances themselves.
Once these themes are adapted to the needs of an object-oriented philosophy, what emerges is a brand new type of metaphysics—a "guerrilla metaphysics."

Author Biography

Graham Harman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(6)
PART ONE THE CARNAL PHENOMENOLOGISTS 7(64)
1. Concreteness in the Depths
9(12)
A. The Most High
11(4)
B. A Hidden Agreement
15(1)
C. Unnatural Objects
16(5)
2. Two Borderlands of Intentionality
21(12)
A. Objectifying Acts
23(3)
B. The Blackbird
26(3)
C. Objects and Qualities
29(2)
D. Two Borderlands
31(2)
3. Bathing in the Ether
33(12)
A. Passivity
34(2)
B. Quality without Substance
36(3)
C. Satisfied with Appearance
39(3)
D. The Ether
42(3)
4. The Style of Things
45(14)
A. Sensation
46(2)
B. The Body
48(1)
C. The In-Itself-for-Us
49(4)
D. Flesh
53(2)
E. Style
55(4)
5. The Levels
59(12)
A. Imperative Objects
62(1)
B. The Senses under Command
63(2)
C. Levels of the World
65(6)
PART TWO SETTING THE TABLE 71(74)
6. Objects
73(16)
A. The Revival of Substance
78(3)
B. Vacuums Everywhere
81(3)
C. The Wheel of Objects and Relations
84(2)
D. The Quintessence
86(3)
7. The Problem of Objects
89(12)
A. Vicarious Cause
91(2)
B. Whole and Part
93(1)
C. Worlds Inside of Vacuums
94(1)
D. Firewalls
95(6)
8. Metaphor
101(24)
A. Execution versus Presentation
102(4)
B. The Plasma of Things
106(4)
C. Reality without Presence
110(6)
D. The Wolf-System
116(9)
9. Humor
125(20)
A. Reduced to Mechanisms
128(6)
B. Sincerity, Comedy, and Charm
134(7)
C. Allure
141(4)
PART THREE QUADRUPLE PHILOSOPHY 145(112)
10. The Root of Vicarious Causation
147(22)
A. Severed Qualities
150(3)
B. A Downward Spiral of Objects
153(7)
C. Elements
160(9)
11. Vicarious Causation
169(66)
A. The Object and Its Parts
173(17)
B. The Object and Its Notes
190(40)
C. Four Questions in One
230(5)
12. Some Implications
235(22)
A. Not Critique
237(4)
B. Gradations
241(7)
C. Time and Space
248(5)
D. The Carnival of Things
253(4)
Notes 257(12)
Bibliography 269(4)
Index 273

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