Preface Introduction 1. Object-Oriented Ontology and the Passion for the Real, Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA) 2. Correlationist Sterility: A Critique of the Absolutisation of Contingency in Meillassoux, Diana Khamis ( Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany ) 3. Facts, not Fossils - New vs. Speculative Realism, Markus Gabriel ( Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany ) 4. Production of Real Presence: What Presence Cannot Convey - A Critique of Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht's Concept of Presence, Benjamin Boysen ( University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 5. Interpreting the facts: Nietzsche and the new Realists, Hans Ruin ( Södertörn University, Sweden) 6. Modern Through and Through: Latour's Quasi-Object as a Modern Mix-Up, Jesper Lundsfryd Rasmussen ( University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) 7.

Acknowledging materiality without fetishizing it: Some pitfalls in speaking for matter, Alf Hornborg ( Lund University, Sweden) 8. The Kantian Catastrophe? - Anti-correlationism and the Absolute, Lars Lodberg and Jacob Lautrup ( Aarhus University, Denmark) 9. Interview, Dipesh Chakrabarty ( University of Chicago, USA) Postscript, Andrew Cole (Princeton University, USA).