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In this sixth issue of Speculations, a journal founded to explore post-continental philosophy and speculative realism, a wide range of contemporary philosophical issues pertaining to the contemporary philosophical scene is touched upon, from the continental realism of Tristan Garcia, Graham Harman and Quentin Meillassoux to the 'new realism' of Maurizio Ferraris, from Lacanian and Laurellian speculations to the synthetic philosophy of Fernando Zalamea's mathematics.ARTICLES /"Garcia's Paradox," Mark Ohm and Jon Cogburn --- "Lacking Causes: Privative Causality from Locke and Kant to Lacan and Deacon," Adrian Johnston --- "Non-philosophy, the 'No' Button, and a Brief Philo-fiction," Randall Johnson --- "Speculating on the Absolute," Bart Zantwoort --- "Why not nothing? Meillassoux's second figure of factiality and metaphysical nihilism," James T. Hill --- "New Realism: A Short Introduction," Maurizio FerrarisDIALOGUE /A Dialogue between Graham Harman and Tristan GarciaREVIEW ESSAY /Review Essay on Fernando Zalamea's "Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics,"Giuseppe Longo --- "Answer to Giuseppe Longo,"Fernando ZalameaREVIEWS /Review of Christopher Norris, "Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative," Paul Livingston --- Review of Simon O'Sullivan, "On the Production of Subjectivity," Jeff Bell --- Review of Graham Harman, "Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy,"Sebastian Normandin --- Review of Patricia MacCormack, "Posthuman Ethics: Embodiment and Cultural Theory," James Stanescu

First published between 1932 and 1940, this is a three-volume study of the historical development of literature. It explores the oral and written literatures of regions from Iceland and the British Isles, to Russia, the Balkans, Africa, India and the Pacific, placing them in their historical context and examining similarities between them. The authors discuss both ancient and recent texts, illustrating the connections within each group and considering the question of whether all literary growth is influenced by common factors. Praised on publication as ' ... a work that is not, probably could not be, superseded' (International Journal of Comparative Sociology), the book remains a benchmark for those studying comparative literature or the history of literary criticism. Volume 1 analyses a range of medieval British and Icelandic poetry and sagas, drawing analogies with the literature of early Greece and focusing particularly on the concept of heroic literature.