Description
In the 20th century, phenomenology promised a method that would get philosophy "back to the things themselves". But phenomenology has always been haunted by the spectre of an anthropocentric antirealism. Tom Sparrow shows how, in the 21st century, speculative realism aims to do what phenomenology could not: provide a philosophical method that disengages the human-centred approach to metaphysics in order to chronicle the complex realm of nonhuman reality. Through a focused reading of the methodological statements and metaphysical commitments of key phenomenologists and speculative realists, Sparrow shows how speculative realism is replacing phenomenology as the beacon of realism in contemporary Continental philosophy. Show More Show Less
About the Author
Tom Sparrow is Visiting Instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Slippery Rock University, PA. He is the author of Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology (with a foreword by Catherine Malabou), forthcoming with Open Humanities Press. He has contributed to a number of established philosophy journals.
Book Information
ISBN 9780748684830
Author Tom Sparrow
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Weight(grams) 350g
About the Author
Tom Sparrow is Visiting Instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Slippery Rock University, PA. He is the author of Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology (with a foreword by Catherine Malabou), forthcoming with Open Humanities Press. He has contributed to a number of established philosophy journals.
Book Information
ISBN 9780748684830
Author Tom Sparrow
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Weight(grams) 350g
