Hysteresis

Maurizio Ferraris is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin. He has written more than fifty books that have been translated into several languages. His books in English are History of Hermeneutics (Humanities Press, 1996), with Jacques Derrida - A Taste for the Secret (Blackwell, 2011), Documentality or Why it is Necessary to Leave Traces (Fordham University Press, 2012), Goodbye Kant! (SUNY, 2013), Where are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone (Fordham University Press, 2014), Manifesto of New Realism (SUNY, 2014), Introduction to New Realism (Bloomsbury, 2014) and Positive Realism (Zero Books, 2015). Sarah De Sanctis is an academic translator specialising in philosophy. She translated these books by Maurizio Ferraris, Where are You? An Ontology of the Cell Phone (Fordham University Press, 2014) and Introduction to New Realism (Bloomsbury, 2014). She is co-editor of Breaking the Spell: Contemporary Realism under Discussion (Mimesis International, 2015).

• Part I. Meditation Part II. Observation1. Introduction: Ontology and Ecology2. The Problem Is Not The Platypus. It’s Kant.3. Aesthetics4. Logic5. Farewell to the Transcendental6. What Is It Like To Be A Slipper?Part III. SpeculationIntroduction: Where Do We Come From?1. What Is Hysteresis?2. Recording3. Iteration4. Alteration5. InterruptionPart IV. RecollectionBibliography; Index

This remarkable book by one of Europe’s leading philosophers is a welcome antidote to the idealist tendencies that have marked so much philosophy in recent centuries. On the one hand it clearly and incisively documents the idealists’ errors. On the other hand it outlines a complete metaphysical theory of realism, thereby launching a new vision for the future of philosophy.