The well-wrought broken hammer: Object-oriented literary criticism

New Literary History

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 183-203

  Harman, Graham ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

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EID: 84865847326     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2012.0016     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. The original published version of my philosophical position can be found in Graham Harman, Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (Chicago: Open Court, 2002).
2. A more compact and up-to-date account can be found in Graham Harman, The Quadruple Object (Winchester, UK: Zero Books, 2011). The final chapter of the latter book contains a history and overview of the speculative realism movement.
3. For a transcript of the event, see "Speculative Realism: Ray Brassier-Iain Hamilton Grant-Graham Harman-Quentin Meillassoux," Collapse III (2007): 306-449.
4. Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency, trans. Ray Brassier (London: Continuum, 2008).
5. Iain Hamilton Grant, Philosophies of Nature after Schelling (London: Continuum, 2006).
6. This phrase comes from Meillassoux's portion of the Goldsmiths transcript referred to above, "Speculative Realism," 423.
7. For a detailed account of the difference between my philosophical position and Meillassoux's, cf. Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2011).
8. Under the modified form of "Object-Oriented Ontology" (OOO), this movement was initially pursued by such authors as Ian Bogost, Levi Bryant, and Timothy Morton, but has since been practiced more widely by a much larger group.
9. Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things (Chicago: Open Court, 2005), 142-44.
10. Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn (New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1947), 199 (hereafter cited as WWU).
11. Stephen Grenblatt, Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (New York: Routledge, 1990), 1.
12. Greenblatt, Learning to Curse, 2.
13. H. Aram Veeser, introduction to The New Historicism, ed. H. Aram Veeser (New York: Routledge, 1989), ix (hereafter cited as NH).
14. Bill Brown, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003), 3.
15. Cf. Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2010), esp. 1, 3, 9, 35, 61.
16. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1997), 70 (hereafter cited as G).
17. See for example Michael Marder, "Différance of the 'Real,'" Parrhesia 4 (2008): 49-61.
18. For a thorough counterexplanation of why Derrida is every bit as antirealist as he seems, see Lee Braver's account in chap. 8 of the already classic A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism (Evanston, IL: Northwestern Univ. Press, 2007).
19. Derrida, "White Mythology: Metaphor in the Text of Philosophy," in Margins of Philosophy, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1982).
20. My account of Derrida's misinterpretation of Aristotle on metaphor can be found in Harman, Guerrilla Metaphysics, 110-16.
21. Charles Altieri, "The Sensuous Dimension of Literary Experience: An Alternative to Materialist Theory," http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~altieri/ manuscripts/Sensuous.html
22. Altieri, "The Sensuous Dimension of Literary Experience."