Continental Realism and Its Discontents

Marie-Eve Morin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She is the author of many articles on Derrida, Heidegger, Nancy, Sartre, Latour, and Sloterdijk. She is also the author of Jean-Luc Nancy (Polity, 2012) and is the co-editor, with Peter Gratton, of The Nancy Dictionary (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions of World, Politics, Art, and Sense (SUNY, 2012). She is editor of Continental Realism and its Discontents (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

How refreshing to read a volume that seeks to bring opposing philosophies into dialogue without the usual tribalism and self-justification. By all means read this book for its penetrating and exceptionally wide-ranging critique of Speculative Realism, but savour it also as that rarest of dishes: genuine philosophical encounter.

• Introduction: Continental Realism – Picking Up the Pieces Vladimir Dukić and Marie-Eve MorinPart I: Responses and Interventions1. Empirical Realism and the Great Outdoors: A Critique of Meillassoux G. Anthony Bruno2. The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling Sean J. McGrath3. Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux’s Speculative Realism Lee BraverPart II: Convergences and Correctives4. Kantian Realisms: The Noumenal, Causation, and Grounding Allison Assiter5. Pessimism or the Importance of Indifference, Time, and Violence in Realist Ontologies Rick Elmore6. Being (with) Objects Anna MuddePart III: Challenges and Prospects7. Merleau-Ponty and the Challenge of Realism, or How (Not) To Go Beyond Phenomenology Marie-Eve Morin8. The Radical Contingency of Temporality, Correlation, and Philosophy: Merleau-Ponty’s Indirect Ontology Contra Meillassoux’s Hyper-Anthropocentric Idealism David Morris9. The Realist Challenge: Thinking the Reality of Language after Deconstruction Peter GrattonNotes on ContributorsIndex