Free Downloads Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes (Mono)
Moving beyond the hype and the inflated claims made for 'Object-Oriented' thought, Peter Wolfendale considers its emergence in the light of the intertwined legacies of twentieth-century analytic and Continental traditions. Both a remarkably clear explication of the tenets of OOP and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today, Object-Oriented Philosophy is a major engagement with one of the most prevalent trends in recent philosophy.
Series: Mono
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Urbanomic (October 31, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0957529597
ISBN-13: 978-0957529595
Product Dimensions: 4.5 x 1.6 x 6.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #847,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #41 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Movements > Structuralism #150 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Movements > Deconstruction
I rate this book 4 stars with the hope that it will be purchased and read with care by those sympathetic and unsympathetic to object-oriented philosophy. Although it will most likely do little to dissuade the former and its direct engagements and critique of OOP will add little to the opinions of the latter (other than a rigorous formulation of the problems we [yes I include myself on this "side"] already know to be the case) it is worth a read. In particular, the highly technical chapter 3.4 "What are objects Anyway: On Ontological Liberalism" and 3.5 "What is Metaphysics Anyway?" are both interesting in their own light. Additionally, chapter 4.2 "The Horrors of the Future" is quite entertaining (my favorite moment being the hypothetical 2023 APA panel composed "entirely of inanimate objects" of which "the ensuing audience discussion unanimously agrees that the contribution of a small half-eaten pot of jam [...] is the highlight of the event"[392]).I won't give the book a full review, but I do encourage you to read it if you are interested in questions regarding what philosophy can do and how it should go about doing what it can.I eagerly await Harman's response to the devastating critiques contained herein. Hopefully the final object in the conversation will be a waving white flag of concession.
Wolfendale has provided an excellent service here in patiently and quite generously expounding (steel-manning) the ideas of OOO and then one by one showing them to be utterly vacuous. He won't get any credit for it, and I suspect the likes of Timothy Morton will simply psychologize it away under the heading of 'resentiment' - Wolfendale is, after all, obscure, and unlikely to be shuttling around the world on various junkets and hobnobbing with conceptual artists and celebrities. Perhaps his ferocious critique is inspired by simple envy? Who cares - it's correct. Those sympathetic to OOO should note that Wolfendale's critique comes from a basically analytic perspective, and shouldn't be lumped in with the various pseudo-left, academic 'radical' jibes at OOO, which are even worse than OOO itself.
Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes (Mono) Object Success : A Manager's Guide to Object-Oriented Technology And Its Impact On the Corporation (Object-Oriented Series) Reusable Software : The Base Object-Oriented Component Libraries (Prentice Hall Object-Oriented Series) Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.: A Memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. Visual Object-Oriented Programming Using Delphi With CD-ROM (SIGS: Advances in Object Technology) The Sewing Bible for Clothes Alterations: A Step-by-step practical guide on how to alter clothes Clothes & Crafts in Aztec Times (Clothes and Crafts Series) Visual Basic 6 Object-Oriented Programming Gold Book: Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft's New ActiveX Release Eargle's The Microphone Book: From Mono to Stereo to Surround - A Guide to Microphone Design and Application (Audio Engineering Society Presents) The Order of Sounds: A Sonorous Archipelago (Mono) Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin (Companion Press Series) Object-Oriented Frameworks Using C++ and CORBA Gold Book: The Must-have Guide to CORBA for Developers and Programmers Distributed Object-Oriented Architectures: Sockets, Java RMI and CORBA Building Distributed, Object-Oriented Business Systems Using CORBA SNMP++: An Object-Oriented Approach to Developing Network Management Applications (Bk/CD-ROM) Object Oriented Programming with Swift 2 Smalltalk V 32-Bit Object-Oriented Programming System - Tutorial (1994 Win32 Series Version 3.0) Digitalk Smalltalk V 32-Bit Object-Oriented Programming System - Encyclopedia of Classes (1994 Win32 Series Version 3.0) Digitalk Ada Plus Data Structures: An Object Oriented Approach
