Genealogies of Speculation looks to break the impasse between the innovations of speculative thought and the dominant strands of 20th century anti-foundationalist philosophy. Challenging emerging paradigms of philosophical history, this text re-evaluates different theoretical and political traditions such as feminism, literary theory, social geography and political theory after the speculative turn in philosophy. With contributions from leading writers in contemporary thought this book is a crucial resource for studying cultural and art-theory and continental philosophy.

AcknowledgementsContributor BiographiesArmen Avanessian and Suhail Malik - Introduction: Speculative GenealogiesGENEALOGY1. Steven Shaviro - Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism2. Adrian Johnston - Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity3. Levi R. Bryant - For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality4. Sjoerd van Tuinen -Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy5. Quentin Meillassoux - Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Materialist Analysis of the Sign Devoid of MeaningGENEALOGY 1. Steven Shaviro - Foreign Territory: The Promises and Perils of Speculative Realism 2. Adrian Johnston - Reflections of a Rotten Nature: Hegel, Lacan and Material Negativity 3. Levi R. Bryant - For a Realist Systems Theory: Luhmann, the Correlationist Controversy and Materiality 4. Sjoerd van Tuinen -Deleuze: Speculative and Practical Philosophy LANGUAGES OF SPECULATION 5. Quentin Meillassoux - Iteration, Reiteration, Repetition: A Speculative Materialist Analysis of the Sign Devoid of Meaning 6. Armen Avanessian - Language Ontology7. Arne De Boever - The Realist Novel and 'the Great Outdoors': Towards a Literary-Speculative Realism8. Suhail Malik - Materialist Reason and its Languages. Part One: Absolute Reason, Absolute DeconstructionSCIENCE9. Nathan Coombs - Underlabouring for Science: Althusser, Brassier, Bhaskar10. Dorothea Olkowski - Formalism, Materialism and Consciousness11. Myra J. Hird and Kathryn Yusoff - Subtending Relations: Bacteria, Geology and the PossibleIndex