-编辑推荐-
★★在实在论的思辨转向中思考“物”★ ★
“物”及其本体存在方式已经成为近10年的学术热点。作为思辨实在论运动的重要发起者之一，格拉汉姆•哈曼提出了“以物为导向的本体论”，旨在阐明物的不可穷尽性：物与人、物与物之间的关系根本无法穷尽物本身。
★★对海德格尔哲学的反叛性解读★★
哈曼将《存在与时间》中的“工具-分析论”放在他对海德格尔哲学阐释的核心位置，以期发展出一个可能的关于用具的具体理论，重新点燃对物自体研究的兴趣。
★★《铃与哨：更思辨的实在论》姊妹篇★★
本书可被看作《铃与哨》的前作，两本书具有完全一致的框架结构，所收录文章的写作时间具有连续性，呈现出哈曼学术思考的完整路径。
-内容简介-
本书成书于2010年，收录了当代著名哲学家格拉汉姆•哈曼在1997—2009年的11篇论文和讲座稿，每章独立成篇。这11篇文章深入浅出地论述了当今哲学界风头正盛的思辨实在论思潮。
本书可以被看作是哈曼学术思考的起点，作者从对海德格尔哲学的反叛性解读开始，展示了由他所提出的“以物为导向的本体论”逐步发展的思想历程。在本书中，作者呼吁我们重新思考“物”及其多种存在方式。哈曼指出，拉图尔的行动者网络理论、海德格尔的工具分析论，以及列维纳斯的差异哲学为超越关系主义对物的狭隘理解创造了条件。在这些理论的基础上，他提出，物具有绝对的不可消逝性，它永远不会被任何关系所穷尽。在他看来，虽然诸物可以在人类主体的主观意图下联结起来相互作用，但是，在诸物之间发挥作用的存在方式远远多于人类的主观意图所明确呈现的。物的存在方式与互动方式虽然带有人类主体的烙印，但这些主观烙印无法彻底穷尽物的诸多种类与存在方式。

人类历史的终结是一个事件，一个已经被从圣保罗到本雅明的弥赛亚主义、从黑格尔到科耶夫的辩证学家所预言和宣告的事件。谁是即将来临（或业已降临）的走向终结的历史的主人公？人是什么？人如何登上舞台？然后人是如何在众多动物中成为主人和保持其首要地位的？
在《敞开》中，吉奥乔•阿甘本认为，人一直被看成自然的有生命力的身体和超自然的、社会的或神圣的因素的神秘结合体，我们反过来必须将人理解为把人性与动物性从实践上和政治上分开的结果。
从古希腊人和弥赛亚思想家，经由18世纪现代科学分类学和人类学的起源，再到20世纪人文主义的黄昏，阿甘本追溯了整个思想线索。他发现人的特殊地位是由西方思想中的“人类学机制”生产出来并加以巩固的。在古代和现代的版本中，人类学机制通过在人与动物之间制造一种绝对差异，让整个机制得以运转：一方面，让人凌驾在动物与环境之上；另一方面，相对于海德格尔所说的人类特质向一个世界的敞开而言，动物性从根本上被排斥在外。在阿甘本的考察中，他聚焦于人与动物之间的这个区分之槛，这个状态既不是动物生命，也不是人的生命。这就是“赤裸生命”的状态。这个人类学机制一旦停止，就会为即将来临的哲学和政治铺平道路，这是我们必须思考的。

In May 1906, the "Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. For Bill Brown, the tale of that possession is something stranger than the history of a culture of consumption. It is the story of Americans using things to think about themselves.
Brown's captivating new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century. This was an era when the invention, production, distribution, and consumption of things suddenly came to define a national culture. Brown shows how crucial novels of the time made things not a solution to problems, but problems in their own right. Writers such as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James ask why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or remake ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears, and to shape our wildest dreams. Offering a remarkably new way to think about materialism, "A Sense of Things will be essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and culture.

New Materialisms rethinks the relevance of materialist philosophy in the midst of a world shaped by forces such as digital and biotechnologies, global warming, global capital, and population flows. Moving away from modes of inquiry that have prioritized the study of consciousness and subjectivity over matter, the essays in this collection show that any account of experience, agency, and political action demands renewed attention to the urgent issues of our own material existence and our environment. The editors propose "new materialisms" as a way to take matter seriously without falling into the conceptual dualism that posits an opposition between matter and thought, materialism and idealism, and body and mind. They locate new materialisms within post-humanist discourses, explaining that new materialist philosophies do not privilege human bodies, but rather view human bodies as one of many bodies, or agential materialities, in the world. By revealing how emerging accounts of matter, materiality, and corporeality are combining with developments in science and technology to demand radically new conceptions of nature, agency, and social and political relationships, New Materialisms makes a significant contribution to the recent resurgence of interest in phenomenology and materialist philosophy in the humanities. Contributors: Sara Ahmed; Jane Bennett; Rosi Braidotti; Pheng Cheah; Rey Chow; Diana Coole; William E. Connolly; Jason Edwards; Samantha Frost; Elizabeth Grosz; Sonia Kruks; Melissa A. Orlie

In "Vibrant Matter" the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a 'vital materiality' that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events. Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the 'vital force' inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a 'green materialist' ecophilosophy.

作为身体研究的经典理论著作，《身体与社会理论》更新至第三版，旨在从理论上推进身体社会学和迅速扩张中的身体研究领域，着重分析晚期现代性下，身体、自我认同和死亡之间的关系。
在结构、论证与内容上，最新修订版延续前两版，对当前全球范围内的关注和争议做出了及时、合理的回应，对社会学及相关学科中身体问题的出现展开了精辟的描述，并对该领域的主要理论和方法进行了详细介绍。每一章都经过重新编写，以增强整体论点：我们需要一种特别的研究身体的思路，既避免自然主义理论的化约论，也避免社会建构论学说的化约论。

In this groundbreaking new book, Manuel Delanda analyzes all the different genres of simulation (from cellular automata and genetic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems) as a means to conceptualize the possibility spaces associated with causal (and other) capacities. Simulations allow us to stage actual interactions among a population of agents and to observe the emergent wholes that result from those interactions. Simulations have become as important as mathematical models in theoretical science. As computer power and memory have become cheaper they have migrated to the desktop, where they now play the role that small-scale experiments used to play. A philosophical examination of the epistemology of simulations is needed to cement this new role, underlining the consequences that simulations may have for materialist philosophy itself. This remarkably clear philosophical discussion of a rapidly growing field, from a thinker at the forefront of research at the interface of science and the humanities, is a must-read for anyone interested in the philosophy of technology and the philosophy of science at all levels.

Onto-Cartography gives an unapologetic defense of naturalism and materialism, transforming these familiar positions and showing how culture itself is formed by nature. Bryant endorses a pan-ecological theory of being, arguing that societies are ecosystems that can only be understood by considering nonhuman material agencies such as rivers and mountain ranges alongside signifying agencies such as discourses, narratives, and ideologies. In this way, Bryant lays the foundations for a new machine-oriented ontology.

本书从哲学史和日常经验入手,阐发了作者所创建并发展起来的"新实在论"哲学.

What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanities-posthumanities-respond to the redefinition of humanity's place in the world by both the technological and the biological or "green" continuum in which the "human" is but one life form among many? Exploring how both critical thought along with cultural practice have reacted to this radical repositioning, Cary Wolfe-one of the founding figures in the field of animal studies and posthumanist theory-ranges across bioethics, cognitive science, animal ethics, gender, and disability to develop a theoretical and philosophical approach responsive to our changing understanding of ourselves and our world. Then, in performing posthumanist readings of such diverse works as Temple Grandin's writings, Wallace Stevens's poetry, Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," the architecture of Diller+Scofidio, and David Byrne and Brian Eno's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," he shows how this philosophical sensibility can transform art and culture. For Wolfe, a vibrant, rigorous posthumanism is vital for addressing questions of ethics and justice, language and trans-species communication, social systems and their inclusions and exclusions, and the intellectual aspirations of interdisciplinarity. In "What Is Posthumanism?" he carefully distinguishes posthumanism from transhumanism (the biotechnological enhancement of human beings) and narrow definitions of the posthuman as the hoped-for transcendence of materiality. In doing so, Wolfe reveals that it is humanism, not the human in all its embodied and prosthetic complexity, that is left behind in posthumanist thought.

太古時期，氧氣曾對生物是種毒素，直到光合作用出現改變大氣的組成
現今，人類則以另種尺度反饋地球，其每日活動的耗能堪比板塊運動
這是一部關於生態的社會理論，與人類／非人行動者的大歷史
本書讓我們澄清各種疑惑並做好準備，直面新氣候體制！
生命不只適應環境，也會調整環境，使環境有利於它們的生存。
幾十億年來，生物和環境相互作用，方才塑造出宜居的地球，
而這個自我調節的行動網絡，正是「蓋婭假說」震撼學界的創見。
然而，自地理大發現起，人類文明對環境的剝削，
已讓蓋婭對人類行動變得極度敏感。
科學家則紛紛宣稱地球已邁入新的地質年代：人類世。
面臨人類世的生態危機，該怎麼理解世界並採取行動，
才不至於落入氣候變遷懷疑論的陷阱？
本書提出反省「自然vs.文化」二分法的概念框架，
並強調氣候治理應跳脫主權國家的框架，
以納入「非人類」的行動者，重新開啟萬物的議會！
小辭典
蓋婭假說（Gaia hypothesis）：1960至1970年代，由發明家兼化學家洛夫洛克（James Lovelock）所提出，他認為地球表面的生物圈與環境構成了能自我調節的演化系統。有別於達爾文主義，洛夫洛克認為生命除了適應，也有調整環境的能力。隨後，以推動內共生學說聞名的生物學家馬古利斯（Lynn Margulis）也協助蓋婭假說的發展，她強調生命體不能獨立自存，生命體之間必然相互依賴與糾纏，遂顛覆了當時如日中天的新達爾文主義者之想像。不過，由於「蓋婭」之名取自希臘神話的大地女神，使此學說常遭到誤解，被認為帶有宗教、天意的色彩，本書作者拉圖因而試圖證明，蓋婭假說並不包含任何目的論或整體論。
人類世（Anthropocene）：或譯人新世，由諾貝爾化學獎得主克魯岑（Paul Crutzen）及其同僚Eugene Stoermer於2000年提出的分期概念，位於全新世之後，在此時期人類活動對地球造成了劇烈影響。查拉切西奇（Jan Zalaciewicz）則在2012年國際地質學大會提案將人類世納為正式的地質年代。關於人類世開始的時間點，專家意見頗為分歧，有人認為始於原子彈試爆的1945年，亦有人認為可追溯到18世紀末的工業革命。本書則建議將印地安人滅絕、美洲大陸林地再生（使二氧化碳濃度位於低點）的1610年，訂為人類世的起點。
本書特色
否認全球暖化的川普，退出巴黎氣候協定，象徵生態運動近年來最嚴重的挫敗。環保支持者的論述與戰略是哪裡出了錯？問題恐怕出在對「自然」概念的理解，而本書則對此進行最徹底的反省！
質疑價值與事實截然二分的習見，科學並不完全歸科學，而是與政治息息相關。
跨學科的討論，自然科學、社會學、哲學、經濟學、政治學，甚至神學，對人類文明的最新階段提供多面向的觀點。
▍蓋婭並非巨型恆溫器，也不是什麼超級有機體，可以用來代替神話裡的大地之母。在我眼中，所謂「面對蓋婭」，應該是指以一種截然不同的方式，根據生物跟地球的關係來重新定義牠們，而非乞靈於某個更高或預先決定的自然秩序。
▍生命體不能獨立自存，就像細胞、細菌或人，都不是可以各自區別開來的。……生命體就像最近一本新書的書名那樣，「一切糾纏不清」。細胞本身就是多個獨立生命的重疊；我們的身體也一樣，不但需要基因，也要依靠數之不盡的小蟲子，包括那些住在我們腸道裡或皮膚表層的微生物。
▍在蓋婭尚未來臨之前，當住在現代工業社會裡的居民重新面向自然，他們看到的是必然的領域；而當他們凝視社會，他們看到的卻是自由的領域——就像哲學家說的那樣。但在蓋婭以後，這兩個領域便無法嚴格區分開來：任何生物、任何活的東西，都不再臣服於某個更高的秩序……畢竟，這些生物都互相糾纏、重疊在一起，而且都是同謀。
▍從人類世開始，自然科學與人文學科兩者已踩在相同的土壤上，亦即我們所共享的臨界區。
▍當氣候懷疑派詆毀氣候學者的科學，譴責氣候學者的舉止就像遊說集團，這些懷疑論者自己其實也集結成一個團體。他們重新分派構成世界的成分，諸如「我們能對政治有何期待」，以及「科學應當如何運作」……既然如此，氣候學者為什麼就不能照辦？
▍如果有人試圖區別科學和宗教，那麼將會出現一場屠殺，因為科學裡向來有宗教，宗教裡也一直有科學。
▍儘管「自然」一詞以不可對它有異議著稱，但這個概念卻是再模糊不過了，無論如何最不可能的便是拿它來終止衝突。
▍「自然」才是普世的、分層的、無可置喙的、系統性的、去生動的、全球的，並且對我等命運無動於衷。蓋婭並不如此。我們說過，每一個行動能力（agency）都藉修改周邊環境以追求自身利益，它們造成了錯綜複雜而又無法預料的後果。而蓋婭只是一個名字，我們不過是用它來指出這一切後果。
▍希望是行動的敵人，像希望一切會變好，與希望最壞的情況並不總是會發生。……在開始行動前，應當先把希望從我們萬分樂觀的生活領域中根除。這也是為什麼考慮再三後，我決定把這一系列演講放在但丁陰鬱的警語之下：「拋棄一切希望」。

Humanity has sat at the center of philosophical thinking for too long. The recent advent of environmental philosophy and posthuman studies has widened our scope of inquiry to include ecosystems, animals, and artificial intelligence. Yet the vast majority of the stuff in our universe, and even in our lives, remains beyond serious philosophical concern. In "Alien Phenomenology, or What It's Like to Be a Thing," Ian Bogost develops an object-oriented ontology that puts things at the center of being--a philosophy in which nothing exists any more or less than anything else, in which humans are elements but not the sole or even primary elements of philosophical interest. And unlike experimental phenomenology or the philosophy of technology, Bogost's alien phenomenology takes for granted that "all" beings interact with and perceive one another. This experience, however, withdraws from human comprehension and becomes accessible only through a speculative philosophy based on metaphor. Providing a new approach for understanding the experience of things "as" things, Bogost also calls on philosophers to rethink their craft. Drawing on his own background as a videogame designer, Bogost encourages professional thinkers to become makers as well, engineers who construct things as much as they think and write about them.

森林会思考吗？狗会做梦吗？这本书试图讲述的正是人类之外的生物如何创造了开辟新世界的可能性，更是体现了人类学向本体论和去人类中心化的趋势。他的课题涉及到对人类学和 “人类 ”的根本反思，以便我们能够学会“生态化 ”我们的伦理。科恩的理论建立在符号学和语言学的基础上，而在厄瓜多尔的阿维拉，他通过一种民族志的手段深入考察了鲁纳人的生存方式，并试图理解他们是怎样将他们自己与他们所处的这个世界上最茂密的森林中的各种“存在”联系起来的：比如灵魂的力量，精灵的力量，乃至是树和猴子之间的交流方法。因此，他在书中挑战了人类学的基本理论，即何为人类、人类又如何区别于其他非人类生物的设定。而这种分野，也让作者拥有了新的人类学研究工具。力图颠覆人类语言在探索外部世界中的作用，主张思考并非人类所有，思考超越人类，这一主张在学界是革命性的。
《森林如何思考》获得了2014年格雷戈里-贝特森人类学最佳图书奖。这本书以令人惊讶的方式激发了地球生态的想象力，其衍生作品不仅包括在林肯中心首演的同名交响乐，还有国际博物馆展览，以及畅销的小说和非小说作品。该书受到了人类学和环境人文科学领域领先学者的热烈欢迎和认可。
※ 唐娜·哈拉维称它是“一本强有力的好书，它改变了我的梦想，重塑了我固定的解释习惯”。
※ 布鲁诺·拉图尔称其为“艺术作品”和 “令人耳目一新的……哲学人类学”。
※ 罗安清认为这本书将“引发人类学之内和人类学之上的重要对话”。
※ 玛丽莲·斯特拉瑟恩称其为“最具创造性的思想跳跃”。
※ 菲利普·笛卡尔说：“《森林如何思考》的一个显著特点是它的复杂——而且写得极其漂亮——微妙的理论命题与更微妙的民族志的交融。”
※ 世界报将其描述为：“人类学学科的真正反思......一个代表作......令人赞叹，而且已然经典化了”。
※ 泰晤士报文学副刊则评价道：“科恩......以完美的平衡走着钢丝：从不忽视作为人类的独特方面，同时拒绝强迫这些方面将我们与其他丰富的思考世界分开”。

Alongside readings of Merleau-Ponty and Levinas, Plastic Bodies digs into an array of ancient, modern, and contemporary texts in search of the resources needed to rebuild the concept of sensation. It assembles a speculative aesthetics that is both a realist theory of sensation and a philosophy of embodiment that breaks the form of the "lived" body.

In Telling Flesh , Vicki Kirby addresses what may be the major theoretical issue in both the social sciences and feminist theory, namely the nature/culture dualism. Her particular focus is on postmodern approaches to corporeality. Kirby explores how these approaches look at the body in terms of meaning, and she argues that they result in the assumption that language is an enclosed domain and the materiality of the body a constructed artifact. Kirby examines the implications of this assumption in the work of Jane Gallop, Judith Butler, and Drucilla Cornell, as well as in recent cyber-criticism. She argues that their notion of culture does not, as they intended, disrupt the conservative implications of the nature/culture division. Instead, nature and culture contrive to haunt their work in the form of an undeclared fear of the flesh.

Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social' as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become a misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stabilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling: and a type of material, distinct from others. Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanation' of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of 'the social' to redefine the notion and allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences, but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the 'assemblages' of nature, Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society. This approach, a 'sociology of associations' has become known as Actor-Network-Theory, and this book is an essential introduction both for those seeking to understand Actor-Network-Theory, or the ideas of one of its most influential proponents.

作者杰夫·普菲弗以路易斯·阿尔都塞的唯物主义理论为出发点，对阿兰·巴迪欧和斯拉沃热·齐泽克两位当今哲学和批判理论领域的巨匠的思想进行了比较分析和深度探讨。普菲弗认为，无论巴迪欧还是齐泽克都在自己的著作中对阿尔都塞唯物主义理论中蕴含着的与众不同的唯物主义思维方式进行了回应，且都试图解决其中存在的问题，在这一点上，齐泽克的理论尝试较为成功，巴迪欧则稍逊一筹。书中普菲弗不仅深入涉猎阿尔都塞、巴迪欧和齐泽克的著作，研究他们的知识背景，还对他们同时代的许多其他学者的作品和思想予以关注。可以说，普菲弗的这本书具有重要意义，能够为当代批判理论中的许多争论提供有益借鉴。

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本书为“当代法国思想文化译丛”的其中一册，是莫里斯·梅洛－庞蒂的作品。内容包括：可见的与自然：哲学探究；反思与探究；探究与辩证法；探究与直觉；交错与交织等。本书内容丰富，观点新颖，分析透彻，具有很强的可读性。