Object-Oriented Philosophy
The Noumenon's New Clothes
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- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2019
Summary
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 li…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780957529595 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0957529597 |
| Author: | Peter Wolfendale, Ray Brassier |
| Publisher: | Urbanomic Media Ltd |
| Imprint: | Urbanomic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 342g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
| Series: | Urbanomic / Mono |
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Critics Review
‘Object Oriented Ontology is the last chapter in the interminable saga of the struggle between realism and transcendentalism. 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 Zizek
About The Author
Peter Wolfendale
Peter Wolfendale is an independent philosopher from the Northeast of England.
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