| Title | Speculative Realism |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Interim with Just a Few Caveats |
| Contributor | Christopher Norris (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0032.1.08 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculations-4-speculative-realism/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Norris, Christopher |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-06-05 |
| Long abstract | Like a good many others I was greatly impressed when I first read Quentin Meillassoux’s After Fin-itude—at any rate its opening section—and even more so to witness its extraordinary impact among the livelier sections of the continental philosophy community over the next few years.1 What the book clearly marked was a full-scale retreat (for which, read “advance”) from the kinds of far-out anti-re-alist, constructivist, or socio-linguistic-relativist position that had captured the high ground across large swathes of the post-1970 continentally influ-enced humanities, philosophy included. In its place there now emerged a hard-line objectivist realism which defined itself squarely against that whole theoretical-cultural mindset. Moreover it did so with primary reference to just those disputed zones, like epistemology and philosophy of science, where anti-realism had pressed its case with maximum vehemence and rhetorical if not argumentative force. |
| Page range | pp. 38–47 |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |