The Allure of Things Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophy [Hardcover]

The Allure of Things: Process and Object in Contemporary Philosophycontests the view that metaphysics is something to be overcome. By focusing on process and object oriented ontology (OOO) and rejecting the privileging of human existence over the existence of non-human objects, this collection explores philosophy's concern with things themselves. Interest in Latour, Stengers, Whitehead, Harman and Meillassoux has prompted a resurgence of ontological questions outside the traditional subject-object framework of modern critical thought. This new collection consequently proposes a pragmatic and pluralist approach to 'modes of existence'. Drawing together an international range of leading scholars,The Allure of Thingsfully covers the similarities between OOO and process philosophy, and is an essential addition to the literature on metaphysics.

Notes on Contributors
PrefaceRoland Faber
IntroductionAndrew Goffey
Part I: Crossings: Connection, Disconnection, Vibration
1. Atomicity, Conformation, Enduring Objects, and Things James Bono
2. Another Response to ShaviroGraham Harman
3. Touch: A Philosophic MeditationRoland Faber
Part II: Things: Substances, Individuals, and Creatures
4. The Time of the Object: Derrida, Luhmann, and the Processual Nature of SubstancesLevi R. Bryant
5. Conatus and Concrescence: Stearns and Whitehead on IndividuationJude Jones
6. Creaturely Things: Living Matter, Dead Matter & the Resonance of Actual EntitiesBeatrice Marovich
7. Facts as Social ThingsMichael Halewood
Part III: Dramatisations: Situating, Abstracting, Experimenting
8. Between Realism and Antirealism: Deleuzian Metaphysics in the Style of WhiteheadJeffrey Bell
9. A Situated Metaphysics. Reading Whitehead on Things and HistoryMelanie Sehgal
10. Speculative philosophy and the art of dramatizationIsabelle Stengers