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.
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9781472590657
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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