| Title | Editorial Introduction |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Michael Austin (editor) |
| Paul J. Ennis(editor) | |
| Fabio Gironi (editor) | |
| Thomas Gokey (editor) | |
| Robert Jackson (editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0032.1.02 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculations-4-speculative-realism/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Austin, Michael; Ennis, Paul J.; Gironi, Fabio; Gokey, Thomas; Jackson, Robert |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-06-05 |
| Long abstract | With this special issue of Speculations we wanted to challenge the contested term “speculative realism,” offering scholars who have some involvement with it a space to voice their opinions of the network of ideas commonly associated with the name. Whilst undoubtedly born under speculative realist auspices, Speculations has never tried to be the gospel of a dogmatic speculative realist church, but rather instead to cultivate the best theoretical lines sprouting from the resurgence, in the last few years, of those speculative and realist concerns attempting to break free from some of the most stringent constraints of critique. Sociologist Randall Collins observed that, unlike other fields of intel-lectual inquiry, “[p]hilosophy has the peculiarity of periodically shifting its own grounds, but always in the direction of claiming or at least seeking the standpoint of greatest generality and importance.”1If this is the case, to deny that a shift of grounds hasindeed become manifest in these early decades of the twenty-first century would be, at best, a sign of a severe lack of philosophical sensitivity. On the other hand, whether or not this shift has been towards greater importance (and in respect to what?) is not only a legitimate but a necessary question to ask. |
| Page range | pp. 5–5 |
| Print length | 1 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |