Against New Materialisms
Published on 23. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-350-33108-2 (ISBN)
Description
The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory.
One of the most influential trends in the humanities and social sciences in the last decades, new materialisms embody a critique of modernity and a pledge to regain immediate reality by focusing on the materiality of the world - human and nonhuman - rather than a post-structuralist focus upon texts.
Against New Materialisms examines the theoretical and practical problems connected with discarding modernity and the human subject from a number of interdisciplinary angles: ontology and phenomenology to political theory, mythology and ecology.
With contributions from international scholars, including Markus Gabriel, Andrew Cole, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, the essays here challenge the capacity of new materialisms to provide solutions to current international crises, whilst also calling into question what the desire for such theories can tell us about the global situation today.
One of the most influential trends in the humanities and social sciences in the last decades, new materialisms embody a critique of modernity and a pledge to regain immediate reality by focusing on the materiality of the world - human and nonhuman - rather than a post-structuralist focus upon texts.
Against New Materialisms examines the theoretical and practical problems connected with discarding modernity and the human subject from a number of interdisciplinary angles: ontology and phenomenology to political theory, mythology and ecology.
With contributions from international scholars, including Markus Gabriel, Andrew Cole, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, the essays here challenge the capacity of new materialisms to provide solutions to current international crises, whilst also calling into question what the desire for such theories can tell us about the global situation today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-33108-2 (9781350331082)
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Benjamin Boysen | Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen
Against New Materialisms
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06/2023
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
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Benjamin Boysen | Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen
Against New Materialisms
E-Book
06/2023
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Academic
€31.99
Available for download
Persons
Benjamin Boysen is author of Nothingness, Negativity, and Nominalism in Shakespeare and Petrarch (2020) and The Ethics of Love: An Essay on James Joyce (2013).
Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen is Carlsberg Reintegration Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen is Carlsberg Reintegration Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Content
Preface
Introduction
1. Object-Oriented Ontology and the Passion for the Real, Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
2. Correlationist Sterility: A Critique of the Absolutisation of Contingency in Meillassoux, Diana Khamis (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Germany)
3. Facts, not Fossils - New vs. Speculative Realism, Markus Gabriel (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Germany)
4. Production of Real Presence: What Presence Cannot Convey - A Critique of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Concept of Presence, Benjamin Boysen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
5. Interpreting the facts: Nietzsche and the new Realists, Hans Ruin (Soedertoern University, Sweden)
6. Modern Through and Through: Latour's Quasi-Object as a Modern Mix-Up, Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
7. Acknowledging materiality without fetishizing it: Some pitfalls in speaking for matter, Alf Hornborg (Lund University, Sweden)
8. The Kantian Catastrophe? - Anti-correlationism and the Absolute, Lars Lodberg and Jacob Lautrup (Aarhus University, Denmark)
9. Interview, Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA)
Postscript, Andrew Cole (Princeton University, USA)
Introduction
1. Object-Oriented Ontology and the Passion for the Real, Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
2. Correlationist Sterility: A Critique of the Absolutisation of Contingency in Meillassoux, Diana Khamis (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Germany)
3. Facts, not Fossils - New vs. Speculative Realism, Markus Gabriel (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Germany)
4. Production of Real Presence: What Presence Cannot Convey - A Critique of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Concept of Presence, Benjamin Boysen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
5. Interpreting the facts: Nietzsche and the new Realists, Hans Ruin (Soedertoern University, Sweden)
6. Modern Through and Through: Latour's Quasi-Object as a Modern Mix-Up, Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
7. Acknowledging materiality without fetishizing it: Some pitfalls in speaking for matter, Alf Hornborg (Lund University, Sweden)
8. The Kantian Catastrophe? - Anti-correlationism and the Absolute, Lars Lodberg and Jacob Lautrup (Aarhus University, Denmark)
9. Interview, Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago, USA)
Postscript, Andrew Cole (Princeton University, USA)