Philosophy : Metaphysics

The Universal (In the realm of the sensible): Beyond Continental Philosophy proposes a radical, new philosophical system that moves from ontology to ethics. Dorothea Olkowski develops the concept of an ontological unconscious, a connection arising from our sensible relation to the world that conditions encounters with the environment and with others. This fundamental ontology rethinks the space-time relations opened by Irigaray’s notion of the ‘interval,’ Bergson’s ‘recollection,’ Merleau-Ponty’s idea of the ‘flesh’ and Deleuze’s ‘plane of immanence’. Writing in an original style, inspired by literature and the arts, Olkowski locates a ‘realm of the senses’, a field of vulnerability, felt as pleasures and pains. This presents an aesthetic sense of something universal to all human kind, as well as to the organic and inorganic world. In addition to this proposal for a wider ontology, the relation between traditional ontologies and politics is examined as a means of opening politics beyond a no exit or limit cycle. Instead a multiplicity of self-organized, emergent perspectives emerges, eliminating the need for the connections, conjunctions, and disjunctions of the Kantian paradigm at work in contemporary continental philosophy. This is a timely, controversial and important book that will contribute enormously to the study of Deleuze and Continental Philosophy. more...

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The first question of abstract reflection that arouses controversy is the problem of Becoming. Being persists, beings constantly change; they are born and they pass away. How can Being change and yet be eternal? more...

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Truth and Genesis' discusses the role and meaning of philosophy in the modern world. Beginning with Aristotle, de Beistegui traces the foundations of modern thought and draws together various threads into a unified philosophy that can serve both artistic and scientific communities. more...

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Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and 1960s,surveying the precursors,the main proponents and the rehabilitators. more...

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A first-rate introduction to the central issues in Metaphysics, covering all core topics in a clear and accessible style, with student-friendly features throughout. more...

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