DeLanda's ontology: assemblage and realism
Author's Department
Philosophy Department
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Continental Philosophy Review
Publication Date
2008
doi
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-008-9084-7
Abstract
Manuel DeLanda is one of the few admitted realists in present-day continental philosophy, a position he claims to draw from Deleuze. DeLanda conceives of the world as made up of countless layers of assemblages, irreducible to their parts and never dissolved into larger organic wholes. This article supports DeLanda’s position as a refreshing new model for continental thought. It also criticizes his movement away from singular individuals toward disembodied attractors and topological structures lying outside all specific beings. While endorsing DeLanda’s realism, I reject his shift from the actual to the virtual.
First Page
367
Last Page
383
Recommended Citation
APA Citation
Harman, G.
(2008). DeLanda's ontology: assemblage and realism. Continental Philosophy Review, 41, 367–383.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-008-9084-7
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/2329
MLA Citation
Harman, Graham
"DeLanda's ontology: assemblage and realism." Continental Philosophy Review, vol. 41, 2008, pp. 367–383.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_journal_articles/2329