Postcontinental Realism

Born 1990; he teaches Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he elaborates his own philosophical system ("generic naturalism”).

• Foreword by José Luis VillacañasPreface§ 1. Introduction§ 1.1. Philosophical Realism and Its Enemies§ 1.2. But What Is Reality?§ 1.2.1. The Translations of "ousia”§ 1.2.2. The Reality of the Categories§ 1.3. Transcendetals or Transcendents?§ 1.3.1. The Naturalistic Fallacy§ 1.3.2. The Principle of Individuation§ 1.4. The Problem of Universals§ 1.5. The Problem of the External World§ 1.6. Continental and Postcontinental Philosophy§ 2. Quentin Meillassoux§ 2.1. This Is Not Realism§ 2.2. The Ontological Proof§ 2.3. The Epistemological Proof§ 2.4. The Figures of Factiality§ 2.4.1. The Canonical Question§ 2.4.2. The Principle of Non-Contradiction§ 2.4.3. The Principle of Identity§ 2.4.4. The Non-Being of the Whole§ 2.5. Divine Irreligion§ 3. Ray Brassier§ 3.1. Somewhere in La Manche§ 3.2. Non-Philosophy§ 3.3. Non-Materialism§ 3.4. From Mysticism to Nihilism§ 3.5. The Extinction of the Human Species§ 3.6. The Two Images of Brassellars§ 4. Graham Harman§ 4.1. Readiness-To-Hand and Presence-At-Hand§ 4.2. The Question Concerning the Thing§ 4.3. Intention and Consciousness§ 4.4. Undermine, Overmine, and Duomine§ 4.5. The Quadruple Object§ 5. Iain Hamilton Grant§ 5.1. It Is Easier to Imagine the End of the World Than the End of Capitalism§ 5.2. Beyond the Sokal Scandal§ 5.3. The Post-Kantian Nature-cide§ 5.4. Animal or Number?§ 5.5. The Physics of Everything§ 5.6. An Incomplete Dualism§ 5.7. Graschelling's Abyss of Forces§ 5.8. An Additional Idealism§ 6. Maurizio Ferraris§ 6.1. Concerning the Italian Embezzlement of Continental Philosophy§ 6.2. Negative Thought and the Crisis of Reason§ 6.3. Weak Thought and Negative Realism§ 6.4. Rational Aesthetics and the Definitions of "Interpretation”§ 6.5. What's Dead and What's Alive in Kantian Philosophy?§ 6.6. Unamendability§ 6.7. Documentality§ 6.8. Social Objects§ 6.9. From the iPhone to the European Union§ 7. Markus Gabriel§ 7.1. A Pundit From Germany§ 7.2. German Idealism for Postanalytic Philosophers§ 7.3. The Definitions of "Metaphysics”§ 7.4. Naïve, Critical, and Special Ontologies§ 7.5. Sense, Existence, and Modality§ 8. Conclusions§ 8.1. Those Who Learn From History Are Doomed to Repeat It?§ 8.2. Postcontinental Realism and the Problem of the External World§ 8.3. Postcontinental Realism and the Problem of Universals§ 8.4. Postcontinental Varieties of Nominalism, Idealism, and Skepticism