Spring 2007, London. Four philosophers - Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Ian Hamilton Grant, Graham Harman - met to discuss how to bring back into philosophy the long-lost reality itself. From this discussion, speculative realism was born - a daring collective attempt to restore philosophy to its former dignity and courage of thought. Speculative realism is not a single position, but a place of debate and intellectual experimentation among young philosophers. They united against a common enemy and ventured to imagine the reality hidden from us behind the veil of finite human phenomena (language, culture, social and cognitive structures, flesh, etc.). To do what has been forbidden since Kant.

Speculative Realism: An Introduction is an opportunity to be at the center of the most ambitious attempt to reclaim the future of philosophy in decades. Graham Harman, a leading theorist of object-oriented ontology (one of the versions of speculative realism), offers his view of speculative realism as a controversial whole, reveals the main positions, points of divergence and purpose of the four branches of one of the most important movements in modern philosophy.