Maurizio Ferraris

Italian philosopher · Italy · Academics · Born 1956 · age 70

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Maurizio Ferraris is an Italian continental philosopher and scholar, whose name is associated especially with the philosophical current named "new realism" - Ferraris wrote the Manifesto of New Realism in 2012, which was published in 2014) - which shares significant similarities with speculative realism and object oriented ontology.

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2012“Postmodernism has found full political and social realisation.”In their wordsMaurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2Read the whole statement

“We are now an empire, and when we act, we create our own reality.”In their wordsMaurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2Read the whole statement

“Far from being fluid, modernity is the era in which words are stones, and in which the nightmare of “'verba manent”' is realised. (p. 78)”In their wordsMaurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2Read the whole statement

“Even at a superficial level, the objections that weak thought raises to truth as violence are objections to violence, not to truth, and are therefore based on a misunderstanding.”In their wordsMaurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2Read the whole statement

“Hence the “impasse”: if knowledge is power, the instance that must produce emancipation, i.e.”In their wordsMaurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2Read the whole statement

“By making mistakes we learn, or others learn.”In their wordsMaurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2Read the whole statement

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Maurizio Ferraris

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Postmodernism has found full political and social realisation.
2012, Maurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2, Own words
The area in which scepticism and the abandonment of truth have shown their most aggressive face has been politics.
2012, Maurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2, Own words
We are now an empire, and when we act, we create our own reality.
2012, Maurizio Ferraris, Manifesto del nuovo realismo, GLF editori Laterza, 2012. ISBN 88-420-9892-2, Own words

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