Sutherland, Thomas (2022) The contortions and convolutions of the 'speculative turn'. Diacritics, 49 (1). pp. 108-126. ISSN 1080-6539
Full content URL: https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2021.0005
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Abstract
Focusing principally on the once-feted philosophical movement of object-oriented ontology (OOO), this article examines the ways in which this movement fits into a broader 'speculative turn', which seeks to reverse the purportedly wrongheaded emphasis of post-Kantian critical philosophy upon the finitude of the subject and to once again unleash the fecund potentialities of speculative thought. Identifying several incongruities and tensions that traverse this project, it is argued that OOO exemplifies the difficulties faced when attempting to articulate a decidedly pre-critical metaphysics without accounting for the question of subjectivity.
| Keywords: | Speculative Philosophy, Object-Oriented Ontology, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Graham Harman, Immanuel Kant |
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| Subjects: | V Historical and Philosophical studies > V500 Philosophy |
| Divisions: | College of Arts > Lincoln School of Film, Media & Journalism > Lincoln School of Film, Media & Journalism (Media) |
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| ID Code: | 48902 |
| Deposited On: | 06 Apr 2022 15:47 |
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