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The Thought of Matter

Materialism, Conceptuality and the Transcendence of Immanence
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Discussions of materialism have exploded in recent years. From the speculative realism/materialism of Quentin Meillassoux to the New Materialism of many modern Marxisms, the interest in a return to or rehabilitation of materialism is on the rise. What is not analyzed in many of these discussions, however, is a trenchant methodological and metaphysical problem lying at the basis of any philosophical materialism: if matter is simply that which is other than thought, then how can it be thought without drawing it away from its materiality? On the other hand, if one assumes a direct access to matter, to this other, what are the conditions of that access? Are they material conditions or cognitive (thought) conditions? Does what would present itself immediately present, at the same time, the conditions that allow it to be presented? If not, then we are closer to a theology of matter and further from a philosophical materialism. The Thought of Matter investigates this metaphysical and methodological problem through Aristotle, Marx, Adorno, Althusser, Duns Scotus, Hobbes, and Benjamin in order to show that a philosophical materialism necessarily requires the concepts and tools of thought in order to allow the otherness of matter to emerge in its own materiality.

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Richard A. Lee Jr. is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of The Force of Reason and the Logic of Force (2004) and Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology (2002).
Release date NZ
December 11th, 2015
Pages
160
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Dimensions
137x209x11
ISBN-13
9781783486434
Product ID
23074627

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