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Cookie akzeptierenCharles William Johns
The Irreducible Reality of the Object
- Springer International Publishing
- 2020
- Taschenbuch
- 144 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030514136
This intriguing and compact book investigates whether or not philosophy can have a use in the face of ¿capitalist realism¿ today. Can philosophy study everyday objects like computers and mobile phones? Can it think of advertising, the population, electricity, buildings and even dreams as ¿objects¿ in their own right, which convey particular and novel qualities when analysed? Johns¿ book starts from an immanent phenomenological study of objects, arguing that such objects disclose larger systems of anthropological meaning and control. The author moves away from the Husserlian ¿essence¿ of the object and embeds his objects in a series of ¿uses¿ (or ¿equipment¿ as Heidegger called it). However,
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