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Other Grounds: Breaking Free of the Correlationist Circle

Autor David Lindsay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 sep 2016
Is it possible to get outside your assumptions and know the world for what it is? As the 20th century came to a close, the verdict seemed to be a resounding "no," but in recent years a renaissance in speculative thought has sparked new lines of inquiry into de-centering the human. Other Grounds enters this conversation with a decidedly lively voice and an ambitious project to match. Not only can we believe in a reality uncolored by our imaginations, says Lindsay, we can also experience it.Closely argued yet expansive in its reach, Other Grounds is built on the premise that we are by our very nature de-centered - that more than one agent is at work in the human body, and that this plurality can serve as a gateway to the experience of otherness in general. Leading the reader with a steady hand through the literature on coincident entities, set theory and the kinesthetic work of F.M. Alexander, Lindsay makes the case for the possibility of objects interceding on us from their own grounds. The result is that rare specimen in the annals of critical thought: a book that is as reasoned as it is readable, as sage as it is sardonic, and unmistakably original throughout.TABLE OF CONTENTS //Introduction: You're on the List (Oh, Wait-) - Chapter One: Here Comes Two of You - Chapter Two: A Real Class Act - Chapter Three: Stalking the Wild Implicit - Chapter Four: Personal Effects - Chapter Five: Public Things - Appendix: Greater Than Zero, Less Than Everything
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ISBN-13: 9780692715185
ISBN-10: 0692715185
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Punctum Books

Notă biografică

David Lindsay comes to his subject from an unabashedly eclectic background. The author of several non-fiction books on inventors and numerous articles and essays, he co-founded the legendary musical group They Might Be Giants and the avant-garde klezmer band The Klezmatics, for whom he wrote the lyrics for "Man in a Hat." He has collaborated with the visionary saxophonist Ornette Coleman and the innovative conductor Butch Morris, and contributed to the object-oriented ontology journal Thinking Nature. Lindsay lives in upstate New York with his wife and two sons, pursuing philosophy as the culmination of his many lifelong interests.