Introduction to new realism
By: Maurizio Ferraris ; translated by Sarah de Sanctis ; with a foreword by Iain Hamilton Grant
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781472590640; 9781472595942; 9781472590664; 9781472590657
Subjects: Realism; Modern Philosophy; Postmodernism; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
Work titles: Manifesto del nuovo realismo
Description: "Introduction to New Realism provides an overview of the movement  of contemporary thought named New Realism, by its creator and most  celebrated practitioner, Maurizio Ferraris. Sharing significant concerns  and features with Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, New  Realism can be said to be one of the most prescient philosophical  positions today. Its desire to overcome the postmodern antirealism of  Kantian origin, and to reassert the importance of truth and objectivity  in the name of a new Enlightenment, has had an enormous resonance both  in Europe and in the US. Introduction to New Realism is the first volume dedicated to exposing this continental movement to an anglophone audience.Featuring  a foreword by the eminent contemporary philosopher and leading exponent  of Speculative Realism, Iain Hamilton Grant, the book begins by tracing  the genesis of New Realism, and outlining its central theoretical  tenets, before opening onto three distinct sections. The first,  'Negativity', is a critique of the postmodern idea that the world is  constructed by our conceptual schemas, all the more so as we have  entered the age of digitality and virtuality. The second thesis,  'positivity', proposes the fundamental ontological assertion of New  Realism, namely that not only are there parts of reality that are  independent of thought, but these parts are also able to act causally  over thought and the human world. The third thesis, 'normativity,'  applies New Realism to the sphere of the social world. Finally, an  afterword written by two young scholars explains in more detail the  relationship between New Realism and other forms of contemporary  realism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 136-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Foreword, by Iain Hamilton Grant.IntroductionPart 1: NegativityPart 2: PositivityPart 3: NormativityAfterwordBibliographyIndex.