From: Sigi Jottkandt <sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org>
To: ohp AT lists.ibiblio.org
Cc: Sigi Jottkandt <sjottkandt AT gmail.com>
Subject: [OA-monographs] Announcing The Being of Analogy
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:06:52 +1100
Dear friends of OHP,
We are delighted to announce the appearance of Noah Roderick's The Being of Analogy in the New Metaphysics series.
"Similarity has long been excluded from reality in both the analytical
and continental traditions. Because it exists in the aesthetic realm,
and because aesthetics is thought to be divorced from objective reality,
similarity has been confined to the prison of the subject. In The Being of Analogy,
Noah Roderick unleashes similarity onto the world of objects. Inspired
by object-oriented theories of causality, Roderick argues that
similarity is ever present at the birth of new objects. This includes
the emergent similarity of new mental objects, such as categories—a
phenomenon we recognize as analogy. Analogy, Roderick contends, is at
the very heart of cognition and communication, and it is through analogy
that we can begin dismantling the impossible wall between knowing and
being."