{"product_id":"9781350410404","title":"After Speculative Realism","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAfter Speculative Realism\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCharlie Johns | Hilan Bensusan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilosophy \/ Metaphysics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuilding upon the contributions to the movement of Speculative Realism \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eby Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman and Quentin \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeillassoux, \u003ci\u003eAfter Speculative Realism\u003c\/i\u003e broadens and intensifies a number \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof key arguments in the field, engaging with both major philosophers of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe past such as Hegel and Kant, and contemporary thinkers like Badiou \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand Žižek.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe four original Speculative Realists were united by a seemingly stubborn fidelity towards 'the real' as that which differed from sense experience, reason, the empirical sciences, representation, language and normativity. This volume further explores the ideas and arguments they had given regarding the potency of the real, but also investigates how the 'correlate' between thinking and being may have been misinformed or limited by a specific reading of phenomenology, a motivation to separate appearance from reality, and a desire to revitalise the Kantian notion of 'noumena'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Speculative Realism\u003c\/i\u003e charts the gap between the denouement of Speculative Realism and the birth of its contemporary successors such as the 'new realism' of Maurizio Ferraris, the kinetic ontology of Thomas Nail, the 'transgressive realism' of Lee Braver, the 'real abstraction' popularised by Alfred Sohn-Rethel, various spectral realisms, Laruellian realisms, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles William Johns\u003c\/b\u003e is a Research Assistant at University of Lincoln, UK. His research focuses on discourses that combine or challenge the distinctions between philosophy and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHilan Bensusan is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy, University of Brasilia, Brazil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350410404\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e312\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15.52\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51936346341516,"sku":"9781350410404","price":36.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_593f13bf-d681-4554-9dd4-41fd73b5d600.jpg?v=1786018316","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350410404","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}