Maurizio Ferraris

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Introduction to New RealismPaperback, 12 February 2015

Introduction to New Realism
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Print Length
168 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Date Published
12 Feb 2015
ISBN-10
1472595947
ISBN-13
9781472595942

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Introduction to New Realism provides an overview of the movement of contemporary thought named New Realism, by its creator and most celebrated practitioner, Maurizio Ferraris. Sharing significant concerns and features with Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, New Realism can be said to be one of the most prescient philosophical positions today. Its desire to overcome the postmodern antirealism of Kantian origin, and to reassert the importance of truth and objectivity in the name of a new Enlightenment, has had an enormous resonance both in Europe and in the US. Introduction to New Realism is the first volume dedicated to exposing this continental movement to an anglophone audience.

Featuring a foreword by the eminent contemporary philosopher and leading exponent of Speculative Realism, Iain Hamilton Grant, the book begins by tracing the genesis of New Realism, and outlining its central theoretical tenets, before opening onto three distinct sections. The first, 'Negativity', is a critique of the postmodern idea that the world is constructed by our conceptual schemas, all the more so as we have entered the age of digitality and virtuality. The second thesis, 'positivity', proposes the fundamental ontological assertion of New Realism, namely that not only are there parts of reality that are independent of thought, but these parts are also able to act causally over thought and the human world. The third thesis, 'normativity, ' applies New Realism to the sphere of the social world. Finally, an afterword written by two young scholars explains in more detail the relationship between New Realism and other forms of contemporary realism.

Product Details

Author:
Maurizio Ferraris
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
12 February 2015
Dimensions:
19.96 x 12.85 x 1.4 cm
ISBN-10:
1472595947
ISBN-13:
9781472595942
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
168
Weight:
199.58 gm

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