2019 年 27 巻 p. 93-103
Maurizio Ferraris (1956-), a contemporary Italian philosopher insisted on the realistic turn earlier than the speculative realists (i. e. Ray Brasser, Iain Hamilton Grant, Graham Herman and Quentin Meillassoux). He criticizes constructivism (including Derridian deconstructivism) by stressing the unamendability of perception. According to Ferraris, if fossils of dinosaurs to be acknowledged as such, either they should have been constructed by human scientists, or known as dinosaurs were before humans appeared on the Earth. He emphasizes the astonishing moments in encountering objects because they possesses both –contradictory– resistant and attractive qualities. Ferraris finds ideas to his own in Schelling’s Philosophy of Revelation, wherein a young German philosopher Markus Gabriel innovates the theory of the field of sense.