The democracy of objects /

"In The Democracy of Objects Bryant proposes that we break with the epistemological tradition and once again initiate the project of ontology as first philosophy. Bryant develops a realist ontology, called 'onticology', which argues that being is composed entirely of objects, properti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bryant, Levi R
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : Open Humanities Press, 2011
Edition:1st ed
Series:New metaphysics
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Towards a Finally Subjectless Object
  • Grounds For a Realist Ontology
  • The Death of Ontology and the Rise of Correlationism
  • Breaking the Correlationist Circle
  • The Onto-Transcendental Grounds of Experimental Activity
  • Objections and Replies
  • Origins of Correlationism: Actualism and the Epistemic Fallacy
  • On the Alleged Primacy of Perception
  • The Paradox of Substance
  • Introduction
  • Aristotle, Substance, and Qualities
  • The Paradox of Substance
  • Virtual Proper Being
  • The Mug Blues
  • Deleuze's Schizophrenia: Between Monism and Pluralism
  • Virtual Proper Being
  • The Problem With Rabbits and Hats
  • Žižek's Objecting Objects
  • The Interior of Objects
  • The Closure of Objects
  • Interactions Between Objects
  • Autopoietic and Allopoietic Objects
  • Translation
  • Autopoietic Asphyxiation: The Case of the Lacanian Clinic
  • Regimes of Attraction, Parts, and Structure
  • Constraints
  • Parts and Wholes: The Strange Mereology of Object-Oriented Ontology
  • Temporalized Structure and Entropy
  • The Four Theses of Flat Ontology
  • Two Ontological Discourses: Lacan's Graphs of Sexuation and Two Ways of Thinking Being
  • The World Does Not Exist
  • Being is Flat