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Review by Seymour Drescher - The Atlanticby Paul Butel Iain Hamilton Grant (2001)
"Review by Seymour Drescher - The Atlanticby Paul Butel Iain Hamilton Grant (2001)" 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Track where Schelling, cosmology, or transcendental argument stop being historical reference and become live conceptual machinery.
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Definition · paragraph 5
Iron- ically, in view of the book's European perspective, Butel accounts for the crucial difference between the magnitude of British and French colonial populations before 1800 primarily in terms of conditions in the New World.
Definition · paragraph 5
The ebb and flow of human migrations also receives considerable attention, especially the streams of Afri- cans and Europeans before 1800 and the great Euro- pean migration between the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and World War I. Butel's book is more of an introductory narrative than a scholarly monograph.
Definition · paragraph 5
Butel devotes ample space to transnational aspects of his story, including fundamental movements of technology and products. The ebb and flow of human migrations also receives considerable attention, especially the streams of Afri- cans and Europeans before 1800 and the great Euro- pean migration between the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte and World War I.
Definition · paragraph 5
Comparative/World 933 during the past two centuries. Butel devotes ample space to transnational aspects of his story, including fundamental movements of technology and products.
History · paragraph 1
Review Author(s): Seymour Drescher Review by: Seymour Drescher Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 106, No. 3 (Jun., 2001), 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.