Indexicalism

Hilan Bensusan is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy at the University of Brasilia. He is the author of Being Up for Grabs: On Speculative Anarcheology (Open Humanities Press, 2016). His other books are published in Portuguese: A diáspora da agência - Ensaio sobre o horizonte das monadologias (The diaspora of agency – Essay on the horizon of monadologies) (EdUFBA, 2018), Linhas de animismo futuro (Lines of future animism) (Mil Saberes, 2017), Heráclito - Exercícios de Anarqueologia (Heraclitus – Exercises in anarcheology) (Ideias e Letras, 2012) and Excessos e Exceções (Excesses and exceptions) (Ideias e Letras, 2008).

• Preface Series Editor’s Preface Introduction: Reality and Speculation Speculative Realism and the Great Outdoors Totality and Speculation Other Dialogues The Paradox of Deictic Speculation 1. Indexicalism: A Paradoxico-Metaphysics Indexicalism Paradoxico-Metaphysics The Routes to Indexicalism (and Paradox) Situated Metaphysics Monadologies Totality Demonstratives and Proper Names Tense Realism and Baroque Realism Horizon Measurement Exteriority and Externalism Proximity Object-oriented Tentacular Thinking 2. The Metaphysics of the Others The Others The Physis of the Others Perspectivism The Metaphysics of the Others in the Age of the Correlate After Speculation The Priority of the Others The Interrupted Nexus Process Metaphysics of the Others Robinsonology and Transcendental Xenology From the Other to the Great Outdoors Perception and Supplement 3. The Hospitality of Perception Doors of Perception Hospitality and the Given The Complexities of Receptivity Importance and Supplement Perceiving is Responding Metaphysical Empiricism Pan-perceptualism Proximity, Conversation and Experience Deictic Absolutes Coda: The Circumscription of Potosí Epistemic Abundance The Potosí Principle Ch’ixi Being Up for Grabs Absolutely Situated Bibliography Index

This invaluable work interrupts metaphysical speculation to show how receptivity is always grounded in hospitality. The horizon of thought is determined by that which lies beyond it. The others who remain outside resist totality, thus freeing us for infinite responsibility. Bensusan’s paradoxico-metaphysics allows us to warmly welcome the Other’s call.