Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things

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"Too unorthodox to be conservative, too systematic to be postmodern, Guerrilla Metaphysics is a unique attempt to describe the carpentry of things. At once systematic and offbeat, technical and poetic, it is a startling new vision of phenomenology's motto: To the things themselves!" "Instead of the occasional cause that makes God responsible for all events, Guerrilla Metaphysics seeks the vicarious cause that links human beings, tools, rivers, mountains, plastic, and clowns. Professor Graham Harman argues for a radical shift in the
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"Too unorthodox to be conservative, too systematic to be postmodern, Guerrilla Metaphysics is a unique attempt to describe the carpentry of things. At once systematic and offbeat, technical and poetic, it is a startling new vision of phenomenology's motto: To the things themselves!" "Instead of the occasional cause that makes God responsible for all events, Guerrilla Metaphysics seeks the vicarious cause that links human beings, tools, rivers, mountains, plastic, and clowns. Professor Graham Harman argues for a radical shift in the phenomenological attitude to objects, and explains how phenomenology can be reunified with the physical world that it wanted to bracket from view." In Part Two Harman takes a fresh approach to metaphor and comedy, explaining how even physical causation has the structure of allure. In the final Part, he offers a new account of causation, which is shown to be not only vicarious but also asymmetrical and buffered.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780812694567
  • Publisher: Open Court Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 10/10/2004
  • Pages: 283
  • Product dimensions: 6.02 (w) x 9.12 (h) x 0.79 (d)

Table of Contents

Pt. 1 The carnal phenomenologists 7
1 Concreteness in the depths 9
2 Two borderlands of intentionality 21
3 Bathing in the ether 33
4 The style of things 45
5 The levels 59
Pt. 2 Setting the table 71
6 Objects 73
7 The problem of objects 89
8 Metaphor 101
9 Humor 125
Pt. 3 Quadruple philosophy 145
10 The root of vicarious causation 147
11 Vicarious causation 169
12 Some implications 235
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