Politics of the Absolute: Hegel and Object Oriented Ontology (Excerpt)
Mots-clés :
Totality, The Absolute, G.W.F Hegel, Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Speculative Realism, Absolute Idealism, Objetive Idealism, Dialectics(c) Tous droits réservés Charles William Johns 2023
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Résumé
Within the last fifteen years there has been somewhat of a mini-renaissance of the philosophical concept of the absolute found in Quentin Meillassoux’s 2008 work After Finitude1 but also found in the Speculative Realism movement in general2. In this paper I will start by briefly describing the various mutations of this absolute in contemporary philosophy. I will then suggest some political implications associated with these notions of the absolute and then move onto an analysis of the absolute ‘whole’ (Hegel et’al) and the absolute (non-relative) independence of the discrete unit or individual object in the work of Graham Harman.
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