Spirit in the Materialist World
On the Structure of Regard
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774483 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Ó Maoilearca (Kingston University) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13-29 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2014.920637 |
| OpenAlex | W1502252098 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay interrogates recent materialist monisms, be they based on contingency, eliminativism, or objective phenomenology, on account of their metaphilosophical ramifications. It is argued that certain dualities must be retained, at least nominally, in order to have any explanatory purchase and escape velocity from philosophical circularity (what Laruelle calls the “principle of sufficient philosophy”). Dyads such as “spirit” and “matter,” “manifest” and “scientific,” “living” and “dead,” or even “illusion” and “reality” are given an immanentist reading that treats them as equal parts of the Real. Following this revisionary metaphysics that reviews the meaning of such terms as optical (not speculative) realities, the matter–spirit couple is specifically used to explain why reality cannot appear as just one thing, even if only in virtue of the illusion of at least two things. The consequences for philosophical monisms of all types, and for anthropocentric thought in general, are then examined in the light of the ethical effects of recent attempts to explain every thing through one medium alone (matter, object, contingency
Anthropocentrism · Contingency · Eliminative materialism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Illusion · Materialism · Meaning (existential · Metaphysics · Phenomenology (philosophy · Transcendental number · Virtue · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Philosophy, Science, and History · Psychology · Philosophy
Nihil Unbound
After Finitude
Being No One
The Engine of Reason, the Seat of the Soul
Creative evolution /
Aping Mankind
Orientations Matter
Introducing the New Materialisms
The Rediscovery of the Mind
We Have Never Been Modern
Philosophy of the Encounter
Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement
Life, Movement and the Fabulation of the Event
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |