Fields of Sense

Markus Gabriel is Chair in Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He is the author of many books and articles in German. His publications in English include Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), The Limits of Epistemology (Polity Press, 2019), Transcendental Ontology: Essays on German Idealism (Continuum, 2011) and co-author with Slavoj Žižek of Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism (Continuum, 2009).

• Series Editor’s Preface; Author’s Preface; Introduction; Part I: Negative Ontology; 1. Zoontology; 2. Existence is not a proper property; 3. What is wrong with Kant and Frege?; 4. Limits of Set-Theoretical Ontology and Contemporary Nihilism; 5. Domains of Objects and Fields of Sense; 6. Fields and the Meaning of Existence; 7. The No World View; Part II: Positive Ontology; 8. Indefinitely Many Fields of Sense; 9. How Flat Can Ontology Be?; 10. Actuality and Possibility; 11. Modalities II: Necessity, Contingency, and Logical Time; 12. Forms of Knowledge: Epistemological Pluralism, 13. Senses as Ways Things Are in Themselves; Bibliography; Index.

Markus Gabriel is one of the leaders of the revival of interest in realism in contemporary European philosophy. In this volume, he develops his own ambitious, distinctive and provocative version of the view, one that is likely to spur much discussion.