Speculative Realism: Introduction.

Spring 2007, London. Four philosophers - Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman - met to discuss how to bring back into philosophy the long-lost reality in itself. In this discussion, speculative realism was born - a bold... collective attempt to restore philosophy its former dignity and courage of thought. Speculative realism is not a single position, but a space for discussions and intellectual experiments of young philosophers. They united against a common opponent and risked thinking about the reality that hides from us behind the veil of finite human phenomena (language, culture, social and cognitive structures, flesh, etc.). To do what has been forbidden since Kant. "Speculative Realism: Introduction" is the opportunity to be at the center of the most ambitious attempt in recent decades to reclaim the future of philosophy. Graham Harman, a leading theorist of object-oriented ontology (one of the versions of speculative realism), offers his perspective on speculative realism as a contested whole, revealing the main positions, points of divergence, and purposes of the four branches of one of the most important currents in contemporary philosophy.