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1 online resource (545 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Being and Motion; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction I: The Age of Motion; Book I: The Ontology 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; Introduction II: Kinos, Logos, Graphos; Book II: The Motion of Ontology; Part I: Being and Space; I. Kinos; 13. Centripetal Motion; II. Logos |
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14. Prehistoric Mythology: Venus, Egg, SpiralIII. 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 |
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III. Graphos28. The Book I: Manuscript; 29. The Book II: Printing Press; Part IV: Being and Time; I. Kinos; 30. Elastic Motion; 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; Conclusion; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a single contemporary ontology which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. Being and Motion sets out to remedy this lacuna in contemporary thought by providing a historical ontology of our present: an ontology of movement |
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Print version record |
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Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
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Human beings -- Migrations -- History
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Migration, Internal -- Political aspects
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
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Human beings -- Migrations.
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Migration, Internal -- Political aspects.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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History.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190908928 |
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0190908920 |
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9780190908942 |
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0190908947 |
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