The Graham Harman Reader 1803412410, 9781803412412
The essential compendium of shorter works by one of the most influential philosophers of the twenty-first century. Writt
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Table of contents :
I. Anti-Mining and the Return to Metaphysics
1.The Third Table
2.Undermining, Overmining, and Duomining: A Critique
3.The Ferris Wheel (from Circus Philosophicus)
4.The Only Exit from Modern Philosophy
5.Object-Oriented Philosophy vs. Radical Empiricism (from Bells and Whistles)
6.Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and Z
7.The Four Most Typical Objections to Object-Oriented Ontology (from Bells and Whistles)
II. The Fourfold Object
8.Sensual Objects (from The Quadruple Object)
9.Real Objects (from The Quadruple Object)
10.The Future of Continental Realism: Heidegger’s Fourfold
11.The New Fourfold (from The Quadruple Object)
12.Real Qualities
13.Physical Nature and the Paradox of Qualities (from Towards Speculative Realism)
III. Indirect Causation
14.The Two Faces of Mediation
15.Time, Space, Essence, and Eidos: A New Theory of Causation
16.Asymmetrical Causation: Influence Without Recompense
17.On Vicarious Causation
18.Opening Statement (from The Prince and the Wolf)
IV. Aesthetics as First Philosophy
19.Greenberg, Duchamp, and the Next Avant-Garde
20.Materialism is Not the Solution: On Matter, Form, and Mimesis
21.Lovecraft and Philosophy (from Weird Realism)
22.The Well-Wrought Broken Hammer: Object-Oriented Literary Criticism
V. Ethics and the Politics of Things
23.Ethics (from Dante’s Broken Hammer)
24.Alphonso Lingis on the Imperatives in Things (from Towards Speculative Realism)
25.Realism Without Hobbes and Schmitt: Assessing the Latourian Option
26.Concerning the COVID-19 Event
27.Malabou’s Political Critique of Speculative Realism
28.Object-Oriented Ontology and Commodity Fetishism: Kant, Marx, Heidegger, and Things
VI. Epistemology, Mind, and Science
29.I Am Also of the Opinion That Materialism Must Be Destroyed
30.Zero-Person and the Psyche
31.On Progressive and Degenerating Research Programs With Respect to Philosophy
32.Excerpts on Unjustified True Belief
VII. Previously Unpublished Materials
33.With the Sadats in the Delta
34.Interview with Chiara Principe
35.Some Aspects of My Philosophical Position
I. Anti-Mining and the Return to Metaphysics
1.The Third Table
2.Undermining, Overmining, and Duomining: A Critique
3.The Ferris Wheel (from Circus Philosophicus)
4.The Only Exit from Modern Philosophy
5.Object-Oriented Philosophy vs. Radical Empiricism (from Bells and Whistles)
6.Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and Z
7.The Four Most Typical Objections to Object-Oriented Ontology (from Bells and Whistles)
II. The Fourfold Object
8.Sensual Objects (from The Quadruple Object)
9.Real Objects (from The Quadruple Object)
10.The Future of Continental Realism: Heidegger’s Fourfold
11.The New Fourfold (from The Quadruple Object)
12.Real Qualities
13.Physical Nature and the Paradox of Qualities (from Towards Speculative Realism)
III. Indirect Causation
14.The Two Faces of Mediation
15.Time, Space, Essence, and Eidos: A New Theory of Causation
16.Asymmetrical Causation: Influence Without Recompense
17.On Vicarious Causation
18.Opening Statement (from The Prince and the Wolf)
IV. Aesthetics as First Philosophy
19.Greenberg, Duchamp, and the Next Avant-Garde
20.Materialism is Not the Solution: On Matter, Form, and Mimesis
21.Lovecraft and Philosophy (from Weird Realism)
22.The Well-Wrought Broken Hammer: Object-Oriented Literary Criticism
V. Ethics and the Politics of Things
23.Ethics (from Dante’s Broken Hammer)
24.Alphonso Lingis on the Imperatives in Things (from Towards Speculative Realism)
25.Realism Without Hobbes and Schmitt: Assessing the Latourian Option
26.Concerning the COVID-19 Event
27.Malabou’s Political Critique of Speculative Realism
28.Object-Oriented Ontology and Commodity Fetishism: Kant, Marx, Heidegger, and Things
VI. Epistemology, Mind, and Science
29.I Am Also of the Opinion That Materialism Must Be Destroyed
30.Zero-Person and the Psyche
31.On Progressive and Degenerating Research Programs With Respect to Philosophy
32.Excerpts on Unjustified True Belief
VII. Previously Unpublished Materials
33.With the Sadats in the Delta
34.Interview with Chiara Principe
35.Some Aspects of My Philosophical Position
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