Collapse Volume II: Speculative Realism

Collapse Volume II: Speculative Realism (Reissued Edition) Robin Mackay (Ed.) December 2012UrbanomicAssociate Editor: Damian VealPaperback 107x175mm, 330ppISBN 978-0-9567750-4-7 Comprising subjects from probability theory to theology, from quantum theory to neuroscience, from astrophysics to necrology, and involving them in unforeseen and productive syntheses, Collapse II features a selection of speculative essays by some of the foremost young philosophers at work today, together with new work from artists and cinéastes, and searching interviews with leading scientists. Against the tide of institutional balkanisation and specialisation, this volume testifies to a defiant reanimation of the most radical philosophical problematics - the status of the scientific object, metaphysics and its "end", the prospects for a revival of speculative realism, the possibility of phenomenology, transcendence and the divine, the nature of causation, the necessity of contingency - both through a fresh