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Object-oriented ontology : a new theory of everything /

By: Series: Pelican book ; 18.Publisher: [London] : Pelican Books, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 295 pages : 18 cm. illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780241269152
  • 0241269156
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD311 .H37 2018
Contents:
Introduction -- Chapter 1: A new theory of everything -- Chapter 2: Aesthetics is the root of all philosophy -- Chapter 3 -- Society and politics -- Chapter 4: Indirect relations -- Chapter 5: Object-oriented ontology and its rivals -- Chapter 6: Varying approaches to object-oriented ontology -- Chapter 7: Object-oriented ontology in overview -- Further reading -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as special, radically different in kind from all other objects. But as Graham Harman, one of the theory's leading exponents, shows, Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) rejects the idea of human specialness: the world, he states, is clearly not the world as manifest to humans. "To think a reality beyond our thinking is not nonsense, but obligatory." At OOO's heart is the idea that objects--whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human, or non-human--are mutually autonomous. This core idea has significance for nearly every field of inquiry which is concerned in some way with the systematic interaction of objects, and the degree to which individual objects resist full participation in such systems. In this brilliant new introduction, Graham Harman lays out OOO's history, ideas, and impact, taking in art and literature, politics and natural science along the way. From Sherlock Holmes, unicorns, and videogames to Dadaism, Voltaire, and string theory, this book will change the way you understand everything.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-278) and index.

Introduction -- Chapter 1: A new theory of everything -- Chapter 2: Aesthetics is the root of all philosophy -- Chapter 3 -- Society and politics -- Chapter 4: Indirect relations -- Chapter 5: Object-oriented ontology and its rivals -- Chapter 6: Varying approaches to object-oriented ontology -- Chapter 7: Object-oriented ontology in overview -- Further reading -- Notes -- Index.

We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as special, radically different in kind from all other objects. But as Graham Harman, one of the theory's leading exponents, shows, Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) rejects the idea of human specialness: the world, he states, is clearly not the world as manifest to humans. "To think a reality beyond our thinking is not nonsense, but obligatory." At OOO's heart is the idea that objects--whether real, fictional, natural, artificial, human, or non-human--are mutually autonomous. This core idea has significance for nearly every field of inquiry which is concerned in some way with the systematic interaction of objects, and the degree to which individual objects resist full participation in such systems. In this brilliant new introduction, Graham Harman lays out OOO's history, ideas, and impact, taking in art and literature, politics and natural science along the way. From Sherlock Holmes, unicorns, and videogames to Dadaism, Voltaire, and string theory, this book will change the way you understand everything.

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