{"product_id":"form-and-object-a-treatise-on-things-9780748681501","title":"Form and Object: A Treatise on Things","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects and in so doing gives deep insights into the world and our place in it. Garcia's original and systematic formal ontology of things strips them of any determination, intensity or depth. From this radical ontological poverty, he develops encyclopaedic regional ontologies of objects. By covering topics as diverse as the universe, events, time, the living, animals, human beings, representation, arts and rules, culture, history, political economy, values, classes, genders, ages of life and death, he shows that speculative metaphysics and ontology are alive and well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tristan Garcia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780748681501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTristan Garcia is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lyon and an award-winning novelist. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLa vie intense: Une obsession moderne\u003c\/i\u003e, translated into English as \u003ci\u003eThe Life Intense: A Modern Obsession\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eForme et objet. Un traité des choses\u003c\/i\u003e (PUF, 2011), translated into English as \u003ci\u003eForm and Object: A Treatise on Things\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2014). His other philosophical works include \u003ci\u003eL'Image\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNous\u003c\/i\u003e. His fictional works include \u003ci\u003eLes cordelettes de Browser\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEn l'absence de classement final\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMémoires de la jungle\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2008, he received the Prix de Flore for \u003ci\u003eLa meilleure part des hommes\u003c\/i\u003e, translated into English as \u003ci\u003eHate: A Romance\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Allan Ohm is a graduate research assistant in the Department of French Studies and the Department of Philosophy \u0026amp; Religious Studies at Louisiana State University. He is lead editor of the English translation project of the Atelier de métaphysique et d'ontologie contemporaines at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon 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 \u003ci\u003eForm and Object\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the author of \u003ci\u003eGarcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in\u003c\/i\u003e Form and Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40524065177715,"sku":"9.78075E+12","price":44.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_933df81a-20a0-4d3b-b4d4-9b1d7c307b6d.jpg?v=1666185620","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/form-and-object-a-treatise-on-things-9780748681501","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}