Being and Motion
Published on 12. November 2018
496 pages
978-0-19-090892-8 (ISBN)
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More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a unifying theory which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived from something else that does not move: space, eternity, force, and time. Why, when movement has always been central to human societies, did a philosophy based on movement never take hold? This book finally overturns this long-standing metaphysical tradition by placing movement at the heart of philosophy.
In doing so, Being and Motion provides a completely new understanding of the most fundamental categories of ontology from a movement-oriented perspective: quality, quantity, relation, modality, and others. It also provides the first history of the philosophy of motion, from early prehistoric mythologies up to contemporary ontologies. Through its systematic ontology of movement, Being and Motion provides a path-breaking historical ontology of our present.
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Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion.
Content
Book I: The Ontology of Motion
Introduction I: The Age of Motion
Part I: Ontology and History
1. Historical Ontology
2. Ontological History
3. Philosophy of Motion
4. Realism and Materialism
Part II: The Theory of Motion
I. Flow
5. Continuum
6. Multiplicity
7. Confluence
II. Fold
8. Junction
9. Sensation
10. Conjunction
III. Field
11. Circulation
12. Knot
Book II: The Motion of Ontology
Introduction II: Kinos, Logos, Graphos
Part I: Being and Space
I. Kinos
13. Centripetal Motion
II. Logos
14. Prehistoric Mythology: Venus, Egg, Spiral
III. Graphos
15. Speech: The Body
Part II: Being and Eternity
I. Kinos
16. Centrifugal Motion
II. Logos
17. Ancient Cosmology I: The Holy Mountain
18. Ancient Cosmology II: Theomachy
19. Ancient Cosmology III: Ex Nihilo
20. Ancient Cosmology IV: Plato and Aristotle
III. Graphos
21. Writing I: Tokens
22. Writing II: Alphabet
Part III: Being and Force
I. Kinos
23. Tensional Motion
II. Logos
24. Medieval Theology I: Aether
25. Medieval Theology II: Impetus
26. Medieval Theology III: Conatus
27. Medieval Theology IV: The Trinity
III. Graphos
28. The Book I: Manuscript
29. The Book II: Printing Press
Part IV: Being and Time
I. Kinos
30. Elastic Motion (5,594)
II. Logos
31. Modern Phenomenology I: Series
32. Modern Phenomenology II: Circulation
33. Modern Phenomenology III: Multiplication
34. Modern Phenomenology IV: Process and Interval
III. Graphos
35. The Keyboard I: Typewriter
36. The Keyboard II: Computer
