Organism-Oriented Ontology
By (Author) Audron ukauskait
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press
9th September 2025
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Western philosophy from c 1800
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
149
Paperback
184
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audron ukauskait argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology.
Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. ukauskait argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.