Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

1-1-2017

Abstract

A critical reading guide to Garcia’s systematic metaphysical treatise, Form and Object The publication of Form and Object: A Treatise on Things by Tristan Garcia, Prix de Flore-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, and screenwriter is a genuine event in the history of philosophy. Situating this event within classical, modern, and contemporary dialectical space, Jon Cogburn evaluates Garcia's metaphysics, differential ontology, and militant anti-reductionism through a series of seemingly incompatible oppositions: substance/process, analysis/dialectic, simple/whole and discovery/creation. Cogburn also includes a critical assessment of the consequences of Garcia's philosophy, the various unresolved problems in his treatise and the future prospects of speculative metaphysics. Key Features • A critical guide to Garcia’s systematic metaphysical treatise, Form and Object, and its reconfiguration of traditional philosophical debates • Bridges both the analytic and continental philosophical traditions • Raises several residual and substantive problems concerning: anti-reductionism, Kantianism, epistemic comprehension and non-epistemic set membership, quietism and the Euthyphronic dilemma, and persistence over time • Includes an interview with Garcia asking him about the critical issues raised in the book and his current research.

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Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object

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1

Last Page

238

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