Guerrilla Metaphysics by Graham Harman

Guerrilla Metaphysics by Graham Harman

In Guerrilla Metaphysics, Graham Harman develops further the object-oriented philosophy first proposed in Tool-Being. Today’s fashionable philosophies often treat metaphysics as a petrified relic of the past, and hold that future progress requires an ever further abandonment of all claims to discuss reality in itself. Guerrilla Metaphysics makes the opposite assertion, challenging the dominant "philosophy of access" (both continental and analytic) that remains quarantined in discussions of language, perception, or literary texts. Philosophy needs a fresh resurgence of the things themselves—not merely the words or appearances themselves.
Once these themes are adapted to the needs of an object-oriented philosophy, what emerges is a brand new type of metaphysics—a "guerrilla metaphysics."

Graham Harman is an Associate Provost for Research Administration and a Philosophy Professor at Cairo's American University. He was born in 1968 in Iowa City, Iowa, to hippie parents who met at a Rolling Stones concert in Chicago and had three boys. He earned his bachelor's degree from St. John's University's classical liberal arts department. Annapolis, MD: St. John's College, 1990. His Master's Degree was centered on Levinas and completed at Penn State in 1991 under the supervision of renowned philosopher Alphonso Lingis.

He finished his Ph.D. With a dissertation that became his first book, he graduated from DePaul University in Chicago in 1999. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as a Chicago sportswriter while completing his PhD studies. He started working at the American University of Cairo's Department of Philosophy in September 2000.

Egypt has become his home base, allowing him to travel to over 60 countries and write ten novels in less than a decade. He adores animals and became a vegetarian at the age of seven for ethical reasons.

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ISBN 13	9780812694567
ISBN 10	0812694562
Title	Guerrilla Metaphysics
Author	Graham Harman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
Year published	2005-08-18
Number of pages	280
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