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Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes (Urbanomic / Mono)
Peter Wolfendale
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A remarkably clear explication of the tenets of Object-Oriented Philosophy and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today. How does the patience and rigour of philosophical explanation fare when confronted with an irrepressible desire to commune with the object and to escape the subjective perplexities of reference, meaning, and sense? Moving beyond the hype and the inflated claims made for Object-Oriented thought, Peter Wolfendale considers its emergence in the light of the intertwined legacies of twentieth-century analytic and Continental traditions. Both a remarkably clear explication of ... Read more
A remarkably clear explication of the tenets of Object-Oriented Philosophy and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today. How does the patience and rigour of philosophical explanation fare when confronted with an irrepressible desire to commune with the object and to escape the subjective perplexities of reference, meaning, and sense? Moving beyond the hype and the inflated claims made for Object-Oriented thought, Peter Wolfendale considers its emergence in the light of the intertwined legacies of twentieth-century analytic and Continental traditions. Both a remarkably clear explication of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Urbanomic
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Falmouth, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780957529595
SKU
V9780957529595
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About Peter Wolfendale
Peter Wolfendale is an independent philosopher from the Northeast of England.
Reviews for Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes (Urbanomic / Mono)
'Object Oriented Ontology is the last chapter in the interminable saga of the struggle between realism and transcendentalism. What Peter Wolfendale does in his detailed and forceful analysis is what Kant did to Swedenborg: to dispel the mist of vibrant (spiritualized) materiality. What Voltaire said about god should be repeated about this book: if it didn't exist, we would have ... Read more