All Outputs (14)

Suprematist ontology and the ultra deep field problem: Operations of the concept (2015)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2015). Suprematist ontology and the ultra deep field problem: Operations of the concept. In C. Cox, J. Jaskey, & S. Malik (Eds.), Realism Materialism Art (231-242). Berlin/New York: Sternberg Press

Kasimir Malevich's philosophical writings draw not on Schopenhauer, as is usually argued, but on Schelling. Thus his theory of the additional element constitutes an ontological rather than an epistemological intervention which this essay develops.

Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem (2015)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2015). Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem. In S. Pfeffer (Ed.), Speculations on Anonymous Materials. Berlin: Merve

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field consists of an image, published in 2006 but shot between September 2003 and January 2004, of a tiny part of the Galaxy: the constellation of Fornax, which lies just below Orion in the night sky. The image was constructed b... Read More about Inflationary hypotheses: The construction of matter and the deep field problem.

Foreword: The three dogmas of transcendentalism (2014)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2014). Foreword: The three dogmas of transcendentalism. In M. Ferraris (Ed.), Introduction to New Realism (vi-xx). London: Bloomsbury

The hypothesis of nature's logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie (2014)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2014). The hypothesis of nature's logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie. In M. Altman (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism (478-498). London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Schelling’s Naturphilosophie is either considered one of several phases through which his philosophy passed or, as Schelling repeatedly states, it is “one side of philosophy” until at least 1830 and, since he wrote his last work on the subject in 184... Read More about The hypothesis of nature's logic in Schelling's Naturphilosophie.

Ein blick auf den post-kopernikanischen dogmatismus: Die antinomien des transzendentalen naturalismus (2013)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2013). Ein blick auf den post-kopernikanischen dogmatismus: Die antinomien des transzendentalen naturalismus. In R. Brassier, G. Harman, & A. Toscano (Eds.), Realismus Jetzt (76-121). Merve Verlag

What is the dogmatism against which transcendental philosophy launched its Copernican revolution? Since Kant’s invention of the thing-in-itself, philosophers are apt to think dogmatism in terms of an access problem, and therefore to conclude that any... Read More about Ein blick auf den post-kopernikanischen dogmatismus: Die antinomien des transzendentalen naturalismus.

What is an action? Ground and consequent in Schelling's philosophy of nature (2013)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2013). What is an action? Ground and consequent in Schelling's philosophy of nature. In E. C. Corriero, & A. Dezi (Eds.), Nature and Realism in Schelling's Philosophy (3-26). Torino: Accademia University Press

Schelling's dynamics entail that an action is one just when something ensues that was not. Pursuing this account demonstrates the continuity of the philosophy of freedom with that of nature, such that the later is not a different species than the ear... Read More about What is an action? Ground and consequent in Schelling's philosophy of nature.

Does Nature stay what it is? (2010)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2010). Does Nature stay what it is?. In L. Bryant, G. Harman, & N. Srnicek (Eds.), The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. Melbourne: Re:Press

The problem addressed in this paper is twofold. Firstly, what are the implications of a powers metaphysics for materialism? Secondly, assuming power to be an antithetical concept to substance, what becomes of the idea of nature under such a metaphysi... Read More about Does Nature stay what it is?.

F.W.J. Schelling, 'On the World Soul', Translation and Introduction (2010)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2010). F.W.J. Schelling, 'On the World Soul', Translation and Introduction. In R. Mackay (Ed.), Collapse Vol. VI: Geo/Philosophy (58-95). Urbanomic

This is the first partial translation of F.W.J. Schelling’s On the World Soul (1798) into English, and is accompanied by my Introduction to that work. The translation draws on the recent edition of the work produced in the Historisch-kritische Ausgab... Read More about F.W.J. Schelling, 'On the World Soul', Translation and Introduction.

Mining Conditions: A response to Harman (2010)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2010). Mining Conditions: A response to Harman. In L. Bryant, G. Harman, & N. Srnicek (Eds.), The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism. Melbourne: Re:Press

The essay is an invited response to the extended critical consideration afforded my work in Harman’s ‘On the Undermining of Objects: Grant, Bruno, and Radical Philosophy’, included in the same collection. It’s significance concerns the growing intern... Read More about Mining Conditions: A response to Harman.

"All Things Think". Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Nature (2009)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2009). "All Things Think". Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Nature. In D. Skrbina (Ed.), Mind That Abides. Panpsychism in the New Millenium (283-299). Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

This essay explores the problem od the implausibility of the emergence of consciousness from a non-conscious nature from the perspective of a powers ontology, arguing that since the matter constituting all the elements of the universe is homogeneous,... Read More about "All Things Think". Panpsychism and the Metaphysics of Nature.

The insufficiency of ground: On Zizek's Shellingianism (2007)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2007). The insufficiency of ground: On Zizek's Shellingianism. In P. Bowman, & R. Stamp (Eds.), The Truth of Zizek (82-98). Continuum

Philosophy become genetic: The physics of the worldsoul (2004)
Book Chapter
Grant, I. H. (2004). Philosophy become genetic: The physics of the worldsoul. In J. Norman, & A. Welchman (Eds.), The New Schelling (128-150). Continuum

'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling (2002)
Book Chapter
Greenslade, W. (2002). 'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling. In J. Arthurs, & I. H. Grant (Eds.), Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material (15-22). Intellect Books

This chapter traces the motif of the financial crash in realist novels by Dickens, Trollope and Eliot in which the inherent irrationality of capitalist relations is revealed within a broadly explicable ethical universe. By the end of the century, in... Read More about 'Will it smash?': Modernity and the fear of falling.

Crash: Beyond the boundaries of sense (1999)
Book Chapter
Arthurs, J. (1999). Crash: Beyond the boundaries of sense. In J. Arthurs, & I. H. Grant (Eds.), Crash Cultures: Modernity, Mediation and the Material (63-78). Intellect Books