Introduction. The real Kant & Hegel : a postscript on the critique of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology / Andrew Cole. Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen -- Object-oriented ontology and the passion for the real / Zahi Zalloua -- Correlationist sterility : a critique of the absolutisation of contingency in Meillassoux / Diana Khamis -- Facts, not Fossils - New vs. Speculative Realism, Markus Gabriel -- Production of real presence : what presence cannot convey / Benjamin Boysen -- Interpreting the facts : Nietzsche and the new Realists / Hans Ruin -- Modern through and through : Latour's quasi-qbject as a modern mix-up / Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen -- Acknowledging materiality without fetishizing it : some pitfalls in speaking for matter / Alf Hornborg -- The Kantian catastrophe? : anti-correlationism and the absolute / Lars Lodberg, Jacob Lautrup -- New materialism, natural history, and human history : interview with Dipesh Chakrabarty / Benjamin Boysen, Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen -- The real Kant & Hegel : a postscript on the critique of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology / Andrew Cole.
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"The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory. One of the most influential trends in the humanities and social sciences in the last decades, new materialisms embody a critique of modernity and a pledge to regain immediate reality by focusing on the materiality of the world - human and nonhuman - rather than a post-structuralist focus upon texts. Against New Materialisms examines the theoretical and practical problems connected with discarding modernity and the human subject from a number of interdisciplinary angles: ontology and phenomenology to political theory, mythology and ecology. With contributions from international scholars, including Markus Gabriel, Andrew Cole, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, the essays here challenge the capacity of new materialisms to provide solutions to current international crises, whilst also calling into question what the desire for such theories can tell us about the global situation today"-- Provided by publisher.
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