TY - BOOK AU - Cogburn,Jon TI - Garcian meditations: the dialectics of persistence in Form and object T2 - Speculative realism SN - 9781474415927 AV - BH301.O24 G3733 2017eb U1 - 111 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Garcia, Tristan, KW - Object (Philosophy) KW - Form (Philosophy) KW - Objet (Philosophie) KW - Forme (Philosophie) KW - PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-231) and index; Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: Tristan Garcia among the Cave Dwellers -- 1 Neither Substance Nor Process I: Anti-Reductionism -- 2 Neither Analytic Nor Dialectic I: Horizon -- 3 Neither Analytic Nor Dialectic II: The World of Object-Oriented Ontology -- 4 No-Matter-What -- 5 Neither Substance Nor Process II: Two Modes -- 6 Neither Matter Nor World: Thing -- 7 Neither Discovered Nor Created I: Universe and Matter -- 8 Neither Substance Nor Process III: Events, Time, and Life -- 9 Neither Discovered Nor Created II: Beauty, Truth, and Goodness -- 10 Neither Substance Nor Process IV: Existence and Resistance -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - 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. ogburn 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1584837 ER -