Graham Harman - Objects, A Brief Description

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Lecture date: 2007-04-23
In recent centuries, the object has been lost in philosophy. But certain developments in phenomenology began to revive the object after the long, cold winter of idealism. But there is a central paradox of this new form of object-oriented philosophy. If objects are what always hide or withdraw from any possible access, then how do they interact at all?
Graham Harman is a member of the faculty of philosophy at the American University in Cairo. His most recent books are Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things and Heidegger Explained: From Phenomenon to Thing. Lecture organised by Diploma Unit 14.

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@FalseDusk 7 жыл бұрын

Young Graham Harman - Was a pretty guy in his late 30s

@lupo-femme 5 жыл бұрын

Harman sometimes reminds me of Kramer from Seinfeld.

@AbCDef-zs6uj 5 жыл бұрын

I don't necessarily disagree, but can you describe how?

@lupo-femme 5 жыл бұрын

@@AbCDef-zs6uj The stature, the fuzzy hair, and the voice tone.

@apostalote 5 жыл бұрын

How do you not mention the referential unity of significance that Heidegger brings up in his tool analysis? The object is not a unity, rather it exists within an already given unity or totality of meaning. The tool can only be understood in terms of a 'for-the-sake-of-which' that defines our 'invisible' engagement with it. Dasein, or the human being, is also caught up in this referential totality and therefore correlated with the tool as an object. Heidegger does not speak of an object or a subject prior to relations, even the term relation is improper here, the 'object' for Heidegger is always bound up in referential use that takes place within a horizon of sense opened up the projective structure of Dasein. I feel like Graham here is being very selective with his reading of Heidegger.