Speculative realism: Introduction. Harman G.

Spring 2007, London. Four philosophers - Quentin Meyuas, Ray Brassier, Yen Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman - met to discuss how to return to philosophy a long -lost reality itself in itself. Some of them relied on the mathematical comprehension of reality or the natural science images of the extinct universe, others on the radical interpretations of the classics of philosophy. In this discussion, speculative realism was born - a daring collective attempt to return philosophy its former dignity and the courage of speculative thinking.

speculative realism - this is not a single position, but a place of discussions and intellectual experiments of young philosophers. They united against the common enemy and dared to think of the reality hiding from us behind the veil of the final human phenomena (language, culture, social and cognitive structures, flesh, etc.). To do what has been prohibited since the time of Kant. “Speculative realism: Introduction” is an opportunity to be at the center of the most interesting and ambitious over the past decades attempts to win the future of philosophy.

Graham Harman, leading the theorist of an object-oriented ontology (one of the versions of speculative realism), offers his own The view of speculative realism as a controversial whole reveals the main positions, points of discrepancy and purpose of four branches of one of the most important trends in modern philosophy.