Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter iii
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: Continental Realism – Picking Up the Pieces 1
5. Part I: Responses and Interventions
6. 1 Empirical Realism and the Great Outdoors: A Critique of Meillassoux 21
7. 2 The Ecstatic Realism of the Late Schelling 38
8. 3 Before Infinitude: A Levinasian Response to Meillassoux’s Speculative Realism 59
9. Part II: Convergences and Correctives
10. 4 Kantian Realisms: The Noumenal, Causation and Grounding 83
11. 5 Pessimism, or The Importance of Indifference, Time and Suffering in Realist Ontologies 100
12. 6 Being (with) Objects 116
13. Part III: Challenges and Prospects
14. 7 Merleau-Ponty and the Challenge of Realism, or How (Not) to Go beyond Phenomenology 137
15. 8 The Radical Contingency of Temporality, Correlation and Philosophy: Merleau-Ponty’s Indirect Ontology contra Meillassoux’s Hyper-Anthropocentric Idealism 155
16. 9 The Realist Challenge: Thinking the Reality of Language after Deconstruction 175
17. Notes on Contributors 188
18. Index 191