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Realism and Representation: on the Ontological Turn
DANIEL SACILOTTO that is, which unquestioningly privileges a certain temporal modality in its understanding of being. EALISM AND EPRESENTATION R R The existential analytic of Dasein carried forth by ON THE ONTOLOGICAL TURN phenomenology is thereby supposed to supplant the representational account of reason advanced by critique, suspending the equation of being and §1 - THE TWO MEANINGS OF THE “ONTOLOGICAL TURN” substance to which Kant would have remained be- holden to.4 This investigation is said to be ontological The views associated with the title “speculative then not in overcoming the question of access or realism” are often coordinated with a so-called in having resolved the quandaries concerning the “ontological turn” that is said to have taken place relation between man and the world. Rather, it purg- in recent Continental philosophy.1 Yet it is rather es this problematic from philosophical centrality unclear what exactly such a turn is supposed to by showing how the question about the disclosure entail. If, as Meillassoux argues, it is Kant’s name of being is necessarily propadeutic to the question that sets the horizon for the anti-realist denouement about the knowing of being. But since Dasein’s own that presumably characterizes both correlationism being is defined by being the agent of this disclosure, and idealism, then something like the overcoming phenomenology is nothing but fundamental ontology. of the critical turn in philosophy would seem to be At the end of this vector of radicalization, we see the centrally at stake.2 The turn towards ontology pro- repeated operation of a “hermeneutics of suspicion,” posed by the new realists would then be the obverse progressively revealing further prejudices in the of a turning away from Kantian epistemology and philosophical text, pushing critique towards the its implications. -
Dr. Christine Daigle (Brock University) Books 8. Rethinking the Human
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS – Dr. Christine Daigle (Brock University) Books 8. Rethinking the Human: Posthuman Vulnerability and its Ethical Potential. (in preparation). 7. Nietzsche as Phenomenologist. (submitted and under review at Edinburgh University Press). 6. Posthumanisms Through Deleuze. Christine Daigle and Terrance McDonald (eds.) (submitted and under review at Indiana University Press). 5. Nietzsche and Phenomenology: Power, Life, Subjectivity. Élodie Boublil and Christine Daigle (eds.), Studies in Continental Thought Series, Indiana University Press, 2013. 4. Jean-Paul Sartre. London: Routledge. Critical Thinkers Series, 2009. 3. Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence. Christine Daigle and Jacob Golomb (eds.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. 2. Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics. Christine Daigle (ed.). Kingston and Montreal: McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2006. 1. Le nihilisme est-il un humanisme? Étude sur Nietzsche et Sartre. Sainte-Foy: Presses de L’Université Laval, 2005. Chapters in books 21. “Fascism and the Entangled Subject, or How to Resist Fascist Toxicity.” In Rosi Braidotti, Simone Bignall, Christine Daigle, Rick Dolphijn, Zeynep Gambetti, Woosung Kang, John Protevi, and Gregory J. Seigworth. How to Live the Anti- Fascist Life and Endure the Pain. New York: Columbia University Press (forthcoming 2020). 20. “Simone de Beauvoir.” Handbook of Phenomenology. Burt C. Hopkins and Claudio Majolino (eds.), London: Routledge (forthcoming 2020). 19. “Unweaving the Threads of Influence: Beauvoir and Sartre.” A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir. Nancy Bauer and Laura Hengehold (eds.), Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell, 2017, 260-270. 18. “Trans-subjectivity/Trans-objectivity.” Feminist Phenomenology Futures. Helen Fielding and Dorothea Olkowski (eds.), Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017, 183-199. 17. “Beauvoir and the Meaning of Life: Literature and Philosophy as Human Engagement in the World.” Feminist Philosophies of Life. -
The New Faces of Realism Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Speculative Realism
Call for Papers The New Faces of Realism Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Speculative Realism University of Wuppertal, November 24-26, 2016 Confirmed Speakers Markus Gabriel (Bonn) Alexander Schnell (Wuppertal) Sacha Carlson (Paris) Georgy Chernavin (Moscow) Florian Forestier (Brussels) Hernán Inverso (Buenos Aires) Conference The conference aims to examine the new forms of realism in contemporary metaphysics, phenomenology, and speculative realism. Fundamental questions to be discussed throughout the conference include: the meaning of “realism” in phenomenologically-oriented ontology and metaphysics and in speculative realism; the possibility, scope, and limits of a non-onto- theological metaphysics–speculative, phenomenological, or otherwise–; the methodological foundations of phenomenology, especially in light of recent challenges from speculative realism, neuro- and cognitive sciences, and the different attempts to “naturalize” phenomenology; the nature of the precise disagreement between the different expressions of speculative realism and phenomenology, etc. We welcome contributions devoted to these and other related issues in so far as they are addressed from the discussion on realism as advanced in recent years by philosophers such as Graham Harman, Iain Hamilton Grant, Peter Gratton, Ray Brassier, Quintin Meillassoux, Renaud Barbaras, Tristan Garcia, Claude Romano, Markus Gabriel, Alexander Schnell, Dan Zahavi, Tom Sparrow, Michel Henry, and László Tengelyi. Although the conference focuses on the contemporary debate, we welcome papers discussing “classical” texts on realism in metaphysics and the phenomenological tradition provided that their contemporary relevance for the recent debate is explicitly shown–relevant texts from figures such as Brentano, Scheler, Hartmann, Ingarden, and Schutz easily come to mind. As a way of promoting and amplify the debate, we particularly encourage contributions that are not exclusively exegetical and that incorporate diverse perspectives and philosophical traditions. -
Form and Object a Treatise on Things by Tristan Garcia Part of the Speculative Realism Series
Form and Object – Translators' Q&A Page | 1 Form and Object A Treatise on Things by Tristan Garcia Part of the Speculative Realism series Translators' Q&A with Mark Allan Ohm & Jon Cogburn Asked by Graham Harman, Speculative Realism series editor Graham – This was a monumental translation project, done surprisingly quickly. What led you to take on such a weighty piece of work? Mark – In the spring semester of 2012, Jon taught a course on speculative realism in which we read your work, Meillassoux’s After Finitude, and the essays from the early issues of Collapse. We discovered Garcia’s work via your blog and ATMOC. I began corresponding with Raphaël Millière, a brilliant young philosopher at the ENS, who helps run the workshop. We translated some shorter essays to see if we would be capable of a lengthier project. Garcia gave a lecture at ATMOC on Meinong, the English translation of which I’d like to publish at some point. The importance of Meinong’s work cannot be underestimated. What surprised me most about the work being done at ATMOC was that they were (and still are) working across several philosophical traditions. The latter half of the 20th century bequeathed the Anglophone world a very one- sided picture of “French Theory.” The soixante-huitards were like our noble savages. Many important voices were silenced, due perhaps to institutional and sociological pressures, as well as individual and collective decisions about what works to translate. In many ways this Romantic image of French philosophy continues today. In any case, we decided to propose the book translation to Edinburgh, and that summer all of my waking hours were devoted to drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, listening to copious amounts of walls of noise, and translating the book. -
Moses Mendelssohn's Speculative Realism
PROBLEMI INTERNATIONAL,Inside, The Real: Moses vol. 2, Mendelssohn’sno. 2, 2018 © Society Speculative for Theoretical Realism Psychoanalysis Inside, The Real: Moses Mendelssohn’s Speculative Realism Yuval Kremnitzer In his influential book After Finitude (2008), Quentin Meil- lassoux argues for a new absolute, up-to-date with the 21 st century—absolute contingency. There is only one thing we can know to be true completely independently of us and our modes of representing or constituting the world around us—that there is no underlying reason for being (factuality), and, therefore, nothing to guarantee any sort of necessity, except the necessity of contingency. In the jargon of Western backpackers to India, “everything is possible.” What makes Meillassoux’s book repre- sentative of a larger and rather disorienting moment in philosophy is the way he here captures an underlying desire common to many contemporaries: the desire to break out of the confinements of what he labels “correlationism”—the modern inability to think being outside its correlation with thinking, the inability, that is, to explore being as such, in and of itself, in its utter indifference to human experience: For it could be that contemporary philosophers have lost the great outdoors, the absolute outside of pre-critical thinkers: that outside which was not relative to us, and which was given as indifferent to its own givenness to be what it is, existing in itself regardless of whether we are thinking of it or not; that outside which thought could explore with the legitimate feeling of being on foreign terri- tory—of being entirely elsewhere. -
The Meaning of Hermeneutics and Symbolism
PARRHESIA WWW.PARRHESIAJOURNAL.ORG ISSUE 1 201 INTRODUCTION The meaning of hermeneutics is not something exclusive to hermeneutics; it is not something the hermeneutical enterprise dominates, masters, or even manages. Rather, hermeneutics must understand itself as an activity at the behest of meaning, which it is incapable to exhaust or contain. The meaning of hermeneutics therefore does not belong to hermeneutics, but, on the contrary, hermeneutics belongs to meaning. Its meaning is that which, in one way or another, always pursues and persecutes human beings, who, as interpreting or symbolic animals, is thus limited to a realization of what humans already do—whether explicitly or implicitly; actively or passively—in their individual and collective lives: a search for meaning.1 Now, philo-sophers love and pursue a forever-elusive wisdom, even though, according to Plato, just by the fact of pursuing it, we are guided by it, at least with Socrates and Nicolas of Cusa, to the point of docta ignorantia. In parallel with this and likewise in the search for meaning, be it existential or hermeneutical, meaning. Rather, its evident result is meaninglessness, since, without the felt disquietude of the latter there would not have been any search whatsoever. This search may even lead us to the understanding that human meaning consists in assuming and accepting ontico-literal, effective, patent meaninglessness, so as to thrust it open to ontologico-symbolic, affective, latent meaning. Resignation appears here as the possibility of re- signation [re-signación] (Vattimo) and of as-signment [a-signación], given that the resigned acceptance of the absence of absolute, powerful, and explicit meaning makes possible the acknowledgement of the humanness of our interpretations as such and the assignment to life and the universe of a plurality of linguistic, symbolic, relative or relational, meanings. -
Meillassoux, Correlationism, and the Ontological Difference G
PhænEx 12, no. 2 (winter 2018): 1-12 © 2018 G. Anthony Bruno Meillassoux, Correlationism, and the Ontological Difference G. ANTHONY BRUNO The realist credentials of post-Kantian philosophy are often disputed by those who worry that grounding ontology on the human standpoint— variously construed by Kant, German idealism, phenomenology, and existentialism—bars us from an otherwise accessible reality, impoverishing our cognitive grasp, and betraying the promise of natural science. While many such critics ally with the so-called analytic tradition, the past decade has seen the rise of thinkers versed in the so-called continental tradition who, under the loose and controversial banner of “speculative realism,” seek to overcome the alleged anthropocentrism of Kantian and post-Kantian thought by developing theories of cognitive access to human-transcendent being. Although proponents of speculative realism include Ray Brassier, Levi Bryant, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Graham Harman, my focus will be on Quentin Meillassoux, whose work has been influential both within this movement and for its sympathizers. It is Meillassoux who coins “correlationism” to name the view that we can only access the mutual dependence of thought and being and that, consequently, neither is explicable in isolation, even by the natural sciences (Meillassoux 5). And it is Meillassoux who, in his monograph After Finitude, traces correlationism to Kant’s Copernican revolution and claims its apotheosis to include Heidegger’s phenomenological claim that an understanding of being cannot dispense with an existential analysis of subjectivity. On this view, the question of being is inextricably bound to the question of the meaning of being for such beings as ourselves. -
Daniel Whistler
Speculations III [email protected] www.speculations-journal.org Editors Michael Austin Paul J. Ennis Fabio Gironi Thomas Gokey Robert Jackson isbn 978-0988234017 Front Cover: unanswered: witness Grace Lutheran Church Parking Lot, Linwell Road, St. Catharines, June 2003 by P. Elaine Sharpe Back Cover: unanswered: witness Flight Simulation Training Center, Opa Locka Airport, FLA, December 2002 by P. Elaine Sharpe Courtesy of P. Elaine Sharpe, used with permission. pesharpe.com The focal distance in these photograph is at the normal range of human conversational distance, 3 meters. Although the image may appear to be out of focus, it is focused on the absence of human presence. Designed by Thomas Gokey v 1.0 punctum books ✴ brooklyn, ny 2012 Editorial Introduction 5 Articles Re-asking the Question of the Gendered Subject after 7 Non-Philosophy Benjamin Norris Thing Called Love 43 That Old, Substantive, Relation Beatrice Marovich The Other Face of God 69 Lacan, Theological Structure, and the Accursed Remainder Levi R. Bryant Improper Names for God 99 Religious Language and the “Spinoza-Effect” Daniel Whistler Namelessness and the Speculative Turn 135 A Response to Whistler Daniel Colucciello Barber Diagonals 150 Truth-Procedures in Derrida and Badiou Christopher Norris Synchronicity and Correlationism 189 Carl Jung as Speculative Realist Michael Haworth Translations Über stellvertretende Verursachung 210 Graham Harman Speculative Realism 241 After finitude, and beyond? Louis Morelle Position Papers and Interview 273 Outward Bound -
The Speculative Turn Continental Materialism and Realism
The Speculative Turn Continental Materialism and Realism Edited by Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman Open Access Statement – Please Read This book is Open Access. This work is not simply an electronic book; it is the open access version of a work that exists in a number of forms, the traditional printed form being one of them. Copyright Notice This work is ‘Open Access’, published under a creative commons license which means that you are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work as long as you clearly attribute the work to the authors, that you do not use this work for any commercial gain in any form and that you in no way alter, transform or build on the work outside of its use in normal aca- demic scholarship without express permission of the author and the publisher of this volume. Furthermore, for any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. For more information see the details of the creative commons licence at this website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ This means that you can: • read and store this document free of charge • distribute it for personal use free of charge • print sections of the work for personal use • read or perform parts of the work in a context where no financial transactions take place However, you cannot: • gain financially from the work in anyway • sell the work or seek monies in relation to the distribution of the work • use the work in any commercial activity of any kind • profit a third party indirectly via use or distribution -
Speculative Realism
COLLAPSE III Speculative Realism Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux ‘Speculative Realism: A One-Day Workshop’ took place on 27 April 2007 at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, co-spon- sored by COLLAPSE . Rather than announcing the advent of a new theoretical ‘doctrine’ or ‘school’, the event conjoined four ambitious philosophical projects – all of which boldly problematise the subjectivis- tic and anthropocentric foundations of much of ‘continental philosophy’ while differing significantly in their respective strategies for superseding them. It is precisely this uniqueness of each participant that allowed a fruitful discussion to emerge. Alongside the articulation of various challenges to certain idealistic premises, a determination of the obstacles that any contemporary realism must surmount was equally in effect. Accordingly, some of the key issues under scrutiny included the status of science and epistemology in contemporary philosophy, the ontological constitution of thought, and the nature of subject-independent objects. 307 SpecReal.indd 306-307 8/11/07 22:44:38 COLLAPSE III Speculative Realism However, as workshop moderator and co-organiser Alberto Toscano or a communicational consensus, etc. Much of the indicated, a common feature of the work presented was the implication mainstream of nineteenth and twentieth century post-Kan- that from a genuine interrogation of the continental tradition necessarily tian philosophy is about simply redefining, generalising, ensues a repudiation of the orthodoxies symptomatic of that tradition’s specifying, these transcendental structures or conditions conceptual exhaustion (the most visible of which being the seemingly of cognitive legitimation. -
Phenomenology Without Correlationism: Husserl's Hyletic
Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology Volume 15, Edition 2 October 2015 Page 1 of 12 ISSN (online) : 14451445----73777377 ISSN (print) : 20792079----72227222 Phenomenology Without Correlationism: Husserl’s Hyletic Material by Patrick Whitehead Abstract The thrust of the argument presented in this paper is that phenomenological ontology survives the criticism of “correlationism” as advanced by speculative realism, a movement that has evolved in continental philosophy over the past decade. Correlationism is the position, allegedly occupied by phenomenology, that presupposes the ontological primacy of the human subject. Phenomenology survives this criticism not because the criticism misses its mark, but because phenomenology occupies a position that is broader than that of correlationism. With its critique of correlationism, speculative realism rightly identifies a battle that no longer needs to be fought: the battle against 19th century brands of mechanical realism. Free from the impatient and defensive posturing against the mechanization of the human, phenomenology is also free to explore the world beyond its emphasis on human experience. Doing so requires a return to Husserl’s discussion of hylé and the “twofold bed” of phenomenology. Phenomenology may emphasize hylé – that is, material; or it may emphasize nous – the world as it appears to or is transformed by consciousness. By returning to Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception , a case is made for hyletic phenomenology. Hyletic phenomenology allows for ontological reversibility and recognizes the “unhuman” elements in things. It is hyletic phenomenology that grounds phenomenological ontology after the critique of correlationism has been assessed . Introduction correlationism is not new to phenomenology. Indeed, the ontological limitations implied by correlationism This paper sets out to establish three aims. -
Beauvoir's Reading of Biology in the Second
Beauvoir’s Reading of Biology in The Second Sex David M. Peña-Guzmán Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy - Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française, Vol XXIV, No 2 (2016) 259-285. Vol XXIV, No 2 (2016) ISSN 1936-6280 (print) ISSN 2155-1162 (online) DOI 10.5195/jffp.2016.726 www.jffp.org This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. This journal is operated by the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program, and is co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy | Revue de la philosophie française et de langue française Vol XXIV, No 2 (2016) | www.jffp.org | DOI 10.5195/jffp.2016.726 Beauvoir’s Reading of Biology in The Second Sex David M. Peña-Guzmán Johns Hopkins University The Scientific Face of Beauvoir Without a doubt, the single most powerful (and illustrious) element of Simone de Beauvoir’s magnum opus, The Second Sex (1949), is her radical declaration that biological processes do not make a “woman.” Social relations do. Perhaps more so than any other claim found in any her works, this claim helped Beauvoir bulldoze over the mythos of gender essentialism that has saturated Western philosophy since the days of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Indeed, according to some, this claim turned The Second Sex into the “feminist bible” of the twentieth century. Of course, various other thinkers—living both before and after Beauvoir—have made comparable claims about the relationship between biology and gender, usually from the standpoint of value theory.