INTRODUCTION TO NEW REALISM

Book ID/图书代码： 02000015B80265

English Summary/英文概要： Introduction to New Realism provides an overview of the movement of contemporary thought named New Realism, by its creator and most celebrated practitioner, Maurizio Ferraris. Sharing significant concerns and features with Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, New Realism can be said to be one of the most prescient philosophical positions today. Its desire to overcome the postmodern antirealism of Kantian origin, and to reassert the importance of truth and objectivity in the name of a new Enlightenment, has had an enormous resonance both in Europe and in the US. Introduction to New Realism is the first volume dedicated to exposing this continental movement to an anglophone audience.

Featuring a foreword by the eminent contemporary philosopher and leading exponent of Speculative Realism, Iain Hamilton Grant, the book begins by tracing the genesis of New Realism, and outlining its central theoretical tenets, before opening onto three distinct sections. The first, ’Negativity’, is a critique of the postmodern idea that the world is constructed by our conceptual schemas, all the more so as we have entered the age of digitality and virtuality. The second thesis, ’positivity’, proposes the fundamental ontological assertion of New Realism, namely that not only are there parts of reality that are independent of thought, but these parts are also able to act causally over thought and the human world. The third thesis, ’normativity,’ applies New Realism to the sphere of the social world. Finally, an afterword written by two young scholars explains in more detail the relationship between New Realism and other forms of contemporary realism.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《新现实主义导读》概述了名为“新现实主义”的当代思想，作者Maurizio Ferraris是一名创作家及知名从业者。与推理现实主义和基于客观物体的本体论有着类似的想法和特点，新现实主义可谓当今世界最有预见性的哲学观点。它旨在超越后现代主义，重申真理和客观的重要性，已经在欧洲和美国引起了巨大共鸣。本书是将这一运动介绍给英语为母语的读者的首部作品。

本书由当代著名哲学家Iain Hamilton Grant,作序，书中刚开始追溯了推理现实主义的起源，罗列了其中心理论思想，接着延伸到三个独立的部分。第一部分，“否定性”是对后现代主义思想的批判；第二部分，“肯定性”，提出了新现实主义的本体论基本主张。第三部分，“标准性”，将新现实主义运用到社会范畴中。最后，在后记中，两位年轻的学者更为详细地解释了新现实主义与当代其他形式的现实主义之间的关系。（LYR）

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About the Author/作者介绍： Maurizio Ferraris是意大利都灵大学的一名哲学教授，也是该大学本体论研究院主任。

Maurizio Ferraris is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy where he is also the Director of the LabOnt (Laboratory for Ontology).

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