Preface
Acknowledgements
Series Editor's Preface
Introduction: Tristan Garcia Among the Cave Dwellers

1. Neither Substance Nor Process I: Anti-Reductionism


2. Neither Analytic Nor Dialectic I: Horizon


3. Neither Analytic Nor Dialectic II: The World of Object-Oriented Ontology


4. No-Matter-What


5. Neither Substance Nor Process II: Two Modes


6. Neither Matter Nor World: Thing


7. Neither Discovered Nor Created I: Universe and Matter


8. Neither Substance Nor Process III: Events, Time, and Life


9. Neither Discovered Nor Created II: Beauty, Truth, and Goodness


10. Neither Substance Nor Process IV: Existence and Resistance

Appendix: Tristan Garcia Interview
Bibliography
Index

A critical guide to Garcia's systematic metaphysical treatise Form and Object The publication of Form and Object: A Treatise on Things by Tristan Garcia, Prix de Flore-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, and screenwriter is a genuine event in the history of philosophy. Situating this event within classical, modern, and contemporary dialectical space, Jon Cogburn evaluates Garcia's metaphysics, differential ontology, and militant anti-reductionism through a series of seemingly incompatible oppositions concerning: substance and process, analysis and dialectic, simple and whole, and discovery and creation. Cogburn also includes a critical assessment of the consequences of Garcia's philosophy, the various unresolved problems in his treatise, and the future prospects of speculative metaphysics. Jon Cogburn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University

Jon Cogburn is Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University. He is co-translator of The Life Intense: A Modern Obsession. Together with Mark Ohm, he is the co-translator of Tristan Garcia's Form and Object, and is the author of Garcian Meditations: The Dialectics of Persistence in Form and Object (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).