Guerrilla metaphysics
Subtitle: phenomenology and the carpentry of things
By: Graham Harman.
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780812694567
Subjects: Phenomenology.; Philosophy, Modern.; Metaphysics.
Description: "Too unorthodox to be conservative, too systematic to be postmodern, Guerrilla Metaphysics is a unique attempt to describe the carpentry of things. At once systematic and offbeat, technical and poetic, it is a startling new vision of phenomenology's motto: To the things themselves!" "Instead of the occasional cause that makes God responsible for all events, Guerrilla Metaphysics seeks the vicarious cause that links human beings, tools, rivers, mountains, plastic, and clowns. Professor Graham Harman argues for a radical shift in the phenomenological attitude to objects, and explains how phenomenology can be reunified with the physical world that it wanted to bracket from view."

"In Part Two Harman takes a fresh approach to metaphor and comedy, explaining how even physical causation has the structure of allure. In the final Part, he offers a new account of causation, which is shown to be not only vicarious but also asymmetrical and buffered."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Carnal phenomenologists; title: Setting the table; title: Quadruple philosophy.