Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Whitehead and Speculative Realism
1. Self-Enjoyment and Concern
2. The Actual Volcano
3. The Universe of Things
4. Panpsychism and/or Eliminativism
5. Consequences of Panpsychism
6. Noncorrelational Thought
7. Aisthesis
Bibliography
Index
Steven Shaviro is DeRoy Professor of English at Wayne State University. He is the author of several books, including Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics and Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society (Minnesota, 2003).
"Steven Shaviro has long been the most dignified and helpful of
Speculative Realism’s critics. In this new book, in prose devoid of
rancor or backstabbing ambition, he patiently develops the
metaphysics of Whitehead into an alternative to the four main
strands of Speculative Realism: object-oriented, speculative
materialist, vitalist, and scientistic. Shaviro’s arguments will
interest both the supporters and the detractors of this still young
philosophical movement." —Graham Harman, author of Bells and
Whistles: More Speculative Realism
"Shaviro has done a tremendous service by detailing in clear and
precise prose the key tenets and developments of what has come to
be known as the 'speculative realist' tradition in
contemporary continental philosophy. A standard reference and
a useful guide for many years to come."—Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews"Shaviro’s summaries of the four Speculative Realists’ main
doctrines are helpful to beginner and advanced student
alike."—TLS"The Universe of Things is the most important monograph
yet to address Whitehead’s relevance for contemporary
philosophy."—Los Angeles Review of Books"As for The Universe of
Things, I found it to be extraordinary."—Configurations"An
illuminating critical account of the development of speculative
realism to date and a significant contribution to speculative
realist thought in its own right."—Cultural Critique
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