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The End of Phenomenology
Tom Sparrow
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Paperback. Series: Speculative Realism. Num Pages: 213 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 169 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
In the 20th century, phenomenology promised a method that would get philosophy "back to the things themselves". But phenomenology has always been haunted by the spectre of an anthropocentric antirealism. Tom Sparrow shows how, in the 21st century, speculative realism aims to do what phenomenology could not: provide a philosophical method that disengages the human-centred approach to metaphysics in order to chronicle the complex realm of nonhuman reality. Through a focused reading of the methodological statements and metaphysical commitments of key phenomenologists and speculative realists, Sparrow shows how speculative realism is replacing phenomenology as the beacon of realism ... Read more
In the 20th century, phenomenology promised a method that would get philosophy "back to the things themselves". But phenomenology has always been haunted by the spectre of an anthropocentric antirealism. Tom Sparrow shows how, in the 21st century, speculative realism aims to do what phenomenology could not: provide a philosophical method that disengages the human-centred approach to metaphysics in order to chronicle the complex realm of nonhuman reality. Through a focused reading of the methodological statements and metaphysical commitments of key phenomenologists and speculative realists, Sparrow shows how speculative realism is replacing phenomenology as the beacon of realism ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Speculative Realism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748684830
SKU
V9780748684830
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About Tom Sparrow
Tom Sparrow is Visiting Instructor in the Department of Philosophy at Slippery Rock University, PA. He is the author of Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology (with a foreword by Catherine Malabou), forthcoming with Open Humanities Press. He has contributed to a number of established philosophy journals.
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