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oapen-20.500.12657-588322022-10-15T03:24:09Z New Realism and Contemporary Philosophy Kroupa, Gregor Simoniti, Jure Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Modern philosophy: since c 1800 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPJ Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPK Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science This open access book advances the current debate in continental realism. In the field of contemporary continental ontology, Speculative Realist thinkers are now grappling with the genealogy of their ideas in the history of modern philosophy. The Speculative Realism movement prompted a debate, criticizing the predominant postmodernist orientation in philosophy, which located its origins in Kantian “correlationism” which supposedly ended the period of early modern naive realist metaphysics by showing that the mind and the outside world can only ever be understood as correlates. The debate over a new kind of realism has attracted many supporters and critics. In order to refocus its specific interpretation of modern philosophy in general and of the Kantian gesture in particular, this volume brings together major authors working on contemporary ontology and historians of ideas. It underlines and illustrates the fact that contemporary continental philosophy is rediscovering its past in original ways by productively re-interpreting some of the key concepts of modern philosophy. The perspectives and accounts of the key concepts of the history of philosophy are different in the views of individual contributors, and sometimes radically so, yet the discussion between contemporary realists and their critics shows that the real battleground of new ideas lies not in developing the philosophical motifs of the end of the 20th century, but rather in rethinking the milestones of modern philosophy. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2022-10-14T14:54:39Z 2022-10-14T14:54:39Z 2020 book ONIX_20221014_9781350101784_163 9781350101784 9781350101760 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58832 eng application/pdf n/a 9781350101760.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350101791 10.5040/9781350101791 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350101784 9781350101760 Bloomsbury Academic 240 London open access
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This open access book advances the current debate in continental realism. In the field of contemporary continental ontology, Speculative Realist thinkers are now grappling with the genealogy of their ideas in the history of modern philosophy. The Speculative Realism movement prompted a debate, criticizing the predominant postmodernist orientation in philosophy, which located its origins in Kantian “correlationism” which supposedly ended the period of early modern naive realist metaphysics by showing that the mind and the outside world can only ever be understood as correlates. The debate over a new kind of realism has attracted many supporters and critics. In order to refocus its specific interpretation of modern philosophy in general and of the Kantian gesture in particular, this volume brings together major authors working on contemporary ontology and historians of ideas. It underlines and illustrates the fact that contemporary continental philosophy is rediscovering its past in original ways by productively re-interpreting some of the key concepts of modern philosophy. The perspectives and accounts of the key concepts of the history of philosophy are different in the views of individual contributors, and sometimes radically so, yet the discussion between contemporary realists and their critics shows that the real battleground of new ideas lies not in developing the philosophical motifs of the end of the 20th century, but rather in rethinking the milestones of modern philosophy. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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