Garcian Meditations

Jon Cogburn is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is co-translator of The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession. Together with Mark Ohm, he is the co-translator of Tristan Garcia’s Form and Object, and is the author of Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

Far-ranging and clearly written, this book is an indispensable critical guide to Tristan Garcia’s innovative metaphysical project in Form and Object as well as a significant contribution, in its own right, to today’s leading metaphysical debates. Relating Garcia’s work to that of recent and contemporary analytic philosophers including Quine, Putnam, and Priest, Cogburn’s book will be eagerly sought by those looking for a foretaste, across the analytic-continental divide, of the metaphysics to come.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsSeries Editor’s PrefaceIntroduction: Tristan Garcia Among the Cave DwellersNeither Substance Nor Process I: Anti-Reductionism Neither Analytic Nor Dialectic I: Horizon Neither Analytic Nor Dialectic II: The World of Object-Oriented OntologyNo-Matter-What Neither Substance Nor Process II: Two ModesNeither Matter Nor World: ThingNeither Discovered Nor Created I: Universe and MatterNeither Substance Nor Process III: Events, Time, and LifeNeither Discovered Nor Created II: Beauty, Truth, and GoodnessNeither Substance Nor Process IV: Existence and Resistance Appendix: Tristan Garcia InterviewBibliographyIndex