
Object-Oriented Philosophy
Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes Peter Wolfendale Urbanomic October 2014Postscript by Ray Brassier Paperback 115x175mm, 430pp. ISBN 978-0-9575295-9-5 How does the patience and rigour of philosophical explanation fare when confronted with an irrepressible desire to commune with the object and to escape the subjective perplexities of reference, meaning and sense? Moving beyond the hype and the inflated claims made for 'Object-Oriented' thought, Peter Wolfendale considers its emergence in the light of the intertwined legacies of twentieth-century analytic and Continental traditions. Both a remarkably clear explication of the tenets of OOP and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today, Object-Oriented Philosophy is a major engagement with one of the most prevalent trends in recent philosophy. Object Oriented Ontology is the last chapter in the interminable saga of the struggle between realism and transcendentalism. It attempts to