In his remarkable new book1—or, rather, in one of his remarkable new books, for there are several of them2—Andrew Benjamin presents a “relational ontology,” a picture he has been developing since his 1993 book The Plural Event.3 According to this picture, relations are more fundamental than the “singular entities” they constitute as “after-effects.” Singular entities include particular things and particular selves.4 Thus Benjamin doesn’t deny that there are singular entities, but he treats them as ontological offshoots of the “plural events”

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In Medias Res：Andrew Benjamin 的关系本体论

在他非凡的新书 1——或者更确切地说，在他非凡的新书之一中，因为其中有几本 2——安德鲁·本杰明提出了一种“关系本体论”，这是他自 1993 年出版《复数事件》以来一直在发展的图景。3 根据对于这张图，关系比它们作为“后遗症”而构成的“单一实体”更为根本。单一实体包括特定的事物和特定的自我。 4 因此本雅明并不否认有单一实体，但他将它们视为“多元事件”的本体论分支