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Author Garcia, Tristan, 1981-

Title Form and object : a treatise on things / Tristan Garcia ; translated by Mark Allan Ohm and Jon Cogburn.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 462 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Speculative realism
Speculative realism.
Note Originally published as: Forme et objet: un traité des choses. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, ©2010.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-452) and indexes.
Contents Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Translators' Introduction; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; Book I Formally; Part I Thing; Part II Thing and World; Part III Being and Comprehending; Book II Objectively; Chapter I Universe; Chapter II Objects and Events; Chapter III Time; Chapter IV Living Things; Chapter V Animals; Chapter VI Humans; Chapter VII Representations; Chapter VIII Arts and Rules; Chapter IX Culture; Chapter X History; Chapter XI Economy of Objects; Chapter XII Values; Chapter XIII Classes; Chapter XIV Genders; Chapter XV Ages of Life.
Chapter XVI DeathCoda: Formally, Objectively; The Chance and the Price; Works Cited; Index.
Summary What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place in it.
Access Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL
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Subject Object (Aesthetics)
Object (Aesthetics)
Form (Aesthetics)
Form (Aesthetics)
Philosophy, French.
Philosophy, French.
Shapes -- Philosophy.
Shapes.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Ohm, Mark Allan.
Cogburn, Jon.
Other Form: Print version: Garcia, Tristan, 1981- Form and object 9780748681495 (OCoLC)850856328
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