Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes

by Peter Wolfendale, Ray Brassier (Afterword)

Overview

A remarkably clear explication of the tenets of Object-Oriented Philosophy and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today.

How does the patience and rigour of philosophical explanation fare when confronted with an irrepressible desire to commune with the object and to escape the subjective perplexities of reference, meaning, and sense?

Moving beyond the hype and the inflated claims made for “Object-Oriented” thought, Peter Wolfendale considers its emergence in the light of the intertwined legacies of twentieth-century analytic and Continental traditions.

Both a remarkably clear explication of the tenets of OOP and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today, Object-Oriented Philosophy is a major engagement with one of the most prevalent trends in recent philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780993045806
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	10/08/2019
Series:	Urbanomic / Mono , #1
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	858 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Wolfendale is an independent philosopher from the Northeast of England.

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Endorsement

The man is relentless.

—Graham Harman

From the Publisher

Object Oriented Ontology is the last chapter in the interminable saga of the struggle between realism and transcendentalism. It attempts to undo the transcendental turn and resuscitate the precritical notion of reality in which humans are not subjects but one among many actants. What Peter Wolfendale does in his detailed and forceful analysis is what Kant did to Swedenborg: to dispel the mist of vibrant (spiritualized) materiality. What Voltaire said about god should be repeated about this book: if it didn't exist, we would have to invent it.

—Slavoj Žižek

The man is relentless.

—Graham Harman