Continental Realism and Its Discontents

Marie-Eve Morin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta.

Introduction: Continental Realism - Picking Up the Pieces
Vladimir Duki? and Marie-Eve Morin

Part I: Responses and Interventions
1. Empirical Realism and the Great Outdoors: A Critique of Meillassoux
G. Anthony Bruno

2. The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling
Sean J. McGrath

3. Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux's Speculative Realism
Lee Braver

Part II: Convergences and Correctives
4. Kantian Realisms: The Noumenal, Causation, and Grounding
Allison Assiter

5. Pessimism or the Importance of Indifference, Time, and Violence in Realist Ontologies
Rick Elmore

6. Being (with) Objects
Anna Mudde

Part III: Challenges and Prospects
7. Merleau-Ponty and the Challenge of Realism, or How (Not) To Go Beyond Phenomenology
Marie-Eve Morin

8. The Radical Contingency of Temporality, Correlation, and Philosophy: Merleau-Ponty's Indirect Ontology Contra Meillassoux's Hyper-Anthropocentric Idealism
David Morris

9. The Realist Challenge: Thinking the Reality of Language after Deconstruction
Peter Gratton

Notes on Contributors
Index