Towards a Relational Ontology (eBook)

Philosophy's Other Possibility

Andrew Benjamin (Autor)

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2015
240 Seiten
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-5635-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An original philosophical account of relational ontology drawing on the work of Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Heidegger.In this original work of philosophy, Andrew Benjamin calls for a new understanding of relationality, one inaugurating a philosophical mode of thought that takes relations among people and events as primary, over and above conceptions of simple particularity or abstraction. Drawing on the work of Descartes, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Heidegger, Benjamin shows that a relational ontology has always been at work within the history of philosophy even though philosophy has been reluctant to affirm its presence. Arguing for what he calls anoriginal relationality, he demonstrates that the already present status of a relational ontology is philosophy's other possibility. Touching on a range of topics including community, human-animal relations, and intimacy, Benjamin's thoughtful and penetrating distillation of ancient, modern, and twentieth-century philosophical ideas, and his judicious attention to art and literature make this book a model for original philosophical thinking and writing.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2015
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b&w photo
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• ISBN-10: 1-4384-5635-2 / 1438456352
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-5635-5 / 9781438456355