A Theory of Everything?

Harman is generally regarded as the father of object-oriented ontology, one of the few instantiations of speculative realism, a philosophical position that criticizes the anthropocentric post-Kantian position that all being is the reduction of the correlation between human cognition and the object of inquiry.His 1999 doctoral dissertation “Tool-Being: Elements in a Theory of Objects,” launched the term ‘object-oriented philosophy,' which Levi Bryant rechristened as an ontology in 2009. Both terms are used synonymously by speculative realists, although Bryant's formulation has greater typological appeal. With this book, Harman ignites the philosophical domain by providing the first dedicated account of OOO for a general readership.