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Review by N. A. M. Rodger - The Atlanticby Geoffrey Scammell Paul Butel Iain Hamilton Grant (2000)
"Review by N. A. M. Rodger - The Atlanticby Geoffrey Scammell Paul Butel Iain Hamilton Grant (2000)" approaches Grant through commentary or reception, keeping nature philosophy visible as a live afterlife rather than an isolated specialist discourse.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they give the archive a different philosophical afterlife from Brassier's rationalist critique. Grant reopens nature, world, and Schelling as live speculative resources rather than treating modernity as exhausted by capital or nihilism.
The mechanism is transcendental and cosmological at once. Nature is treated as productive, self-differentiating, and conceptually generative, so philosophy becomes a way of tracking world-process rather than merely critiquing representation.
That matters because the site needs to distinguish Grant's nature philosophy from both CCRU accelerationism and speculative-realist branding. This cluster keeps visible a cosmological branch of the afterlife that would otherwise be flattened into generic realism.
How to read this text
Read first for how nature or world is being defined before moving into the denser speculative vocabulary around it.
Track where Schelling, cosmology, or transcendental argument stop being historical reference and become live conceptual machinery.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 4
Yet it remains rare to write the history of seas. All the more reason, therefore, to welcome the new series 'Seas in History', ed. Geoffrey Scammell, of which the first is TheAtlantic, by Paul Butel, tr. lain Hamilton Grant (London: Routledge, I999; pp. xv+330. ?40).
Definition · paragraph 4
Geoffrey Scammell, of which the first is TheAtlantic, by Paul Butel, tr. lain Hamilton Grant (London: Routledge, I999; pp. xv+330. ?40). After preliminary descriptions of the Viking voyages in the North, and of the mainly Italian exploration of the 'Mediterranean Atlantic' (the Canaries, Madeira and the Azores) in the late Middle Ages, the history gets into its stride with the transatlantic routes which were established and multiplied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Definition · paragraph 3
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History · paragraph 1
Rodger Source: The English Historical Review, Vol. 115, No. 461 (Apr., 2000), pp.
Appears in sections
Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.