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Romantic Realities: Speculative Realism and British Romanticism

By (author) Evan Gottlieb

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Speculative realism is one of the most exciting, influential and controversial new branches of philosophy to emerge in recent years. Now, Evan Gottlieb shows that the speculative realism movement bears striking a resemblance to the ideas and beliefs of the best-known British poets of the Romantic era. Romantic Realities analyses the parallels and echoes between the ideas of the most influential contemporary practitioners of speculative realism and the poetry and poetics of the most innovative Romantic poets. In doing so, it introduces you to the intellectual precedents and contemporary stakes of speculative realism, together with new understandings of the philosophical underpinnings and far-reaching insights of British Romanticism. Readings include: The poetry and poetics of Wordsworth in relation to Graham Harmanâ€™s object-oriented ontology and Timothy Mortonâ€™s dark ecologyColeridgeâ€™s poems and ideas in relation to Ray Brassierâ€™s philosophical nihilism and Iain Hamilton Grantâ€™s revisionist readings of SchellingShelleyâ€™s oeuvre in relation to Quentin Meillassouxâ€™s radical immanentism and Manuel DeLandaâ€™s process ontologyByronâ€™s best-known poems in relation to Alain Badiouâ€™s truth procedures and Bruno Latourâ€™s actor-network-theoryKeatsâ€™ oeuvre in relation to Levi Bryantâ€™s onticology and Ian Bogostâ€™s alien phenomenology