Other Grounds: Breaking Free of the Correlationist Circle

162 Pages·2016·1.378 MB·English

by  David Lindsay

other grounds

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o t h e r g r o u n d s
breaking free of the correlationist circle
David Lindsay

Is there any possibility of a fresh and concrete research into
the secret contours of objects?
— Graham Harman, Towards Speculative Realism (2010)
I would venture to suggest that even the meagre amount
of knowledge of the use of the self contained in these pages
may be sufficient to enable workers in all fields of investi-
gation, whether in biology, astronomy, physics, philosophy,
psychology, or any other, to realize that in their researches
they have passed over a field of experience which, if
explored, would add new material to the premises from
which to make their several deductions.
— F.M. Alexander, The Use of the Self (1946)

Contents
Introduction · You’re on the List! (Oh, Wait —)
11
1 · Here Comes Two of You
17
2 · A Real Class Act
35
3 · Stalking the Wild Implicit Mind
67
4 · Personal Effects
95
5 · Public Things
119
Acknowledgments · The Means Whereby a Book…
149
Appendix · Greater Than Zero, Less Than Everything
153
Bibliography
155