Maurizio Ferraris, Hysteresis: The External World – ed. and trans. Sarah de Sanctis, Edinburgh University Press, February 2024
The preface by Graham Harman and Chapter One are open access under Resources tab at above website.
One of Europe’s leading realist philosophers restores the role of the external world to modern philosophy
- Written by one of the launching members of the New Realism movement
- Made up of two parts: part one written at the end of the 20th century, part two written in 2021, providing an outstanding summary of Ferraris’s increasingly influential philosophy
- Critically engages with the idealist legacy of Kant and Derrida
- With a new Introduction showing how the original themes were developed in Ferraris’ later work and how he connects to other trends in philosophy and culture
Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the spell of Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy. In this book, Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant in a book of two parts, written 21 years apart. The first part of the book, ‘Observation’, originally published in 2001, lays the foundations of Ferraris’ New Realism, foreshadowing the realist turn that has become characteristic of 21st century philosophy. The second part, ‘Speculation’, written in 2021, outlines a complete metaphysical theory of realism.