Indexicalism

Realism and the Metaphysics of Paradox

Hilan Bensusan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2021
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8030-7 (ISBN)

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Proposes a radical new metaphysics where reality is not substantive but indexical.

Hilan Bensusan clarifies the logic and structure of an essentially situated and indexical metaphysics that is paradoxical and can also be regarded as a chapter in the critique of metaphysics. Bensusan articulates a metaphysical view of the other – both human and non-human, in what Meillassoux calls 'the great outdoors' – that can never be totalised into a single or univocal whole. He develops an innovative account of perception, as a matter of our irreducibly situated relationship to this non-totalisable outdoors. In the book's coda, Bensusan underscores the social-political implications of this radical metaphysics in a postcolonial context in a meditation on the sites of Potosi in the Andes and Yasuni National Park in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Equally at home with analytic and continental philosophy, Bensusan enlists Levinas, Whitehead, Heidegger, Kripke, Deleuze, Derrida, Benso, Harman, Garcia, Cogburn, McDowell and Haraway. He does so in a way that proves to be transformative for crucial aspects of their work, for contemporary approaches to thinking about what it means to be in our world, and for reckoning with the responsibilities that press upon us from the outside.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	01.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	Speculative Realism
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	1-4744-8030-6 / 1474480306
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-8030-7 / 9781474480307
Zustand	Neuware