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In Defense of Unfashionable Causes

  • Daniel Sacilotto (author)
Chapter of: Speculations 3(pp. 426–472)

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TitleIn Defense of Unfashionable Causes
ContributorDaniel Sacilotto (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0010.1.15
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculations-iii/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightSacilotto, Daniel
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-09-03
Long abstractthe democracyof objects is Levi Bryant’s first full-blown mono-graph since enlisting in the ranks of the recent philosophical movement known as Object Oriented Philosophy (oop). It offers an outline of what is a broadly novel metaphysical system which, following the work of Graham Harman, describes a reality composed of objects all throughout, and nothing besides. Seeking to displace the primacy of the relation between the human and the world, oop follows the basic intuitions of Quentin Meillassoux’s work in proposing an alternative to idealist and correlationist philosophies, in the arduous process of stepping out of the post-Kantian shadow of critique, wherein Continental theory and thought is said to have circularly roamed, imprisoned, for the past few centuries.1 However, unlike some of its fel-low Continental realists, oop’s approach for overcoming the putative force of the “circle of correlation” is to adopt a de-flationary strategy, in which the question about how humans access the world is construed as being just one more relation between objects in a metaphysical account. In that regard oop is not entirely new, in that it remains continuous with the trivialization of epistemology sought by many Continental thinkers during the 20th Century, promoting rather the restitution of the primacy of ontological questioning, i.e. the kind of radicalization of the critique of metaphysics of which Heidegger, Deleuze, and more recently Badiou, are perhaps the tradition’s most emblematic figures. However, rather than exacerbating the epistemological question of access to the point where strict epistemology becomes displaced in favor of an examination of its linguistic, historical, or socio-cultural conditions, oop proposes to dislodge philosophy from its human cohort altogether, the better to rehabilitate an exploration of “the great outdoors” philosophy had sown shut in favor of critique, making the world relative to our own faculties in some form or other.
Page rangepp. 426–472
Print length47 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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