Overview

Speculative realism challenges philosophical approaches and traditions for supposedly failing to do justice to the real world. Taking this realist challenge seriously, Continental Realism and Its Discontents refuses to discard the philosophical contributions of Kant, Schelling, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Nancy without closer scrutiny. Instead, the contributors turn to these thinkers to meet the challenge of realism in contemporary philosophy.

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Author:   Marie-Eve Morin (Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781474421140

ISBN 10:   1474421148
Pages:   190
Publication Date:   20 August 2017
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Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Continental Realism – Picking Up the Pieces Vladimir Dukić and Marie-Eve Morin Part I: Responses and Interventions1. Empirical Realism and the Great Outdoors: A Critique of Meillassoux G. Anthony Bruno 2. The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling Sean J. McGrath 3. Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux’s Speculative Realism Lee Braver Part II: Convergences and Correctives4. Kantian Realisms: The Noumenal, Causation, and Grounding Allison Assiter 5. Pessimism or the Importance of Indifference, Time, and Violence in Realist Ontologies Rick Elmore 6. Being (with) Objects Anna Mudde Part III: Challenges and Prospects7. Merleau-Ponty and the Challenge of Realism, or How (Not) To Go Beyond Phenomenology Marie-Eve Morin 8. The Radical Contingency of Temporality, Correlation, and Philosophy: Merleau-Ponty’s Indirect Ontology Contra Meillassoux’s Hyper-Anthropocentric Idealism David Morris 9. The Realist Challenge: Thinking the Reality of Language after Deconstruction Peter Gratton Notes on ContributorsIndex

Reviews

How refreshing to read a volume that seeks to bring opposing philosophies into dialogue without the usual tribalism and self-justification. By all means read this book for its penetrating and exceptionally wide-ranging critique of Speculative Realism, but savour it also as that rarest of dishes: genuine philosophical encounter.--Christopher Watkin, Monash University

How refreshing to read a volume that seeks to bring opposing philosophies into dialogue without the usual tribalism and self-justification. By all means read this book for its penetrating and exceptionally wide-ranging critique of Speculative Realism, but savour it also as that rarest of dishes: genuine philosophical encounter. -- Christopher Watkin, Monash University

Author Information

Marie-Eve Morin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She is the author of many articles on Derrida, Heidegger, Nancy, Sartre, Latour, and Sloterdijk. She is also the author of Jean-Luc Nancy (Polity, 2012) and is the co-editor, with Peter Gratton, of The Nancy Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Politics, Art, and Sense (SUNY, 2012). She is editor of Continental Realism and its Discontents (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

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