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Nihilism and metaphysics : the third voyage / Vittorio Possenti ; translated by Daniel Gallagher ; foreword by Brian Schroeder ; Laurie Searl, production ; Kate McDonnell, marketing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Possenti, Vittorio, author.
- Pushead, author of introduction, etc.
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
- SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nihilism (Philosophy)--History.
- Nihilism (Philosophy).
- Knowledge, Theory of--History--19th century.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Knowledge, Theory of--History--20th century.
- Metaphysics--History--19th century.
- Metaphysics.
- Metaphysics--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (426 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenging the idea that nihilism has supplanted metaphysics, Vittorio Possenti finds in this philosophical turn the grounds for a mature renewal of metaphysics. Possenti takes the reader on a "third voyage" that goes beyond the "second voyage" indicated by Plato in the Phaedo. He traces the ascendancy of nihilism in philosophy, offering critical examinations of Nietzsche, Gentile, Heidegger, Habermas, Husserl, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Vattimo. With penetrating accounts of philosophical movements such as hermeneutics and logical empiricism, rich with both historical and theoretical insights, Possenti provides a compelling defense of the power of human reason to apprehend the most obvious but also the most profound aspect of things: that they exist. By exploring the ubiquity of nihilism and probing its philosophical roots, Possenti clears the way for a fresh reformulation of metaphysics.
- Contents:
- ""2. Metaphysical Knowledge of Existence""""Attempts to Neutralize Existence""; ""Existence as the Primary Source of all Intelligibility""; ""Judgment of Existence""; ""Stages in the Gradual Departure from Existence""; ""Kant""; ""Hegel""; ""Schelling""; ""The Consequences of the Essentialization of Existence""; ""Leave-taking""; ""3. Being, Intellect, and Abstractive Intuition""; ""Philosophy as Science""; ""Opening the Realm of Metaphysics""; ""What Is Metaphysics?""; ""Intellectual Intuition""; ""Rational and Intellectual""; ""Hints at the Intellectual Intuition of Being""
- ""The Intellect as the Faculty of Categories and the Impossibility of Intellectual Intuition: Kant""""Nietzsche: The Adversary of the Intellect""; ""The Possibility of Intuition: Bergson""; ""Husserl""; ""A Brief Digression on Anthropology""; ""4. The Status of First Principles""; ""Characteristics of the First Speculative Principles""; ""Per se Predication""; ""First Principles: Analytic or Synthetic?""; ""A Critical Defense of First Principles""; ""Metaphysical Causality and Scientific Causality""; ""5. Speculative Nihilism""; ""Nietzsche""
- ""The Transition to Active Nihilism and the Thinking of Values""""The Question of Truth""; ""The Embodiment of the Subject and the Dissolution of the Object""; ""Willing the Absurd""; ""Theoretic Conception and Tragic Conception""; ""Kierkegaard as the Anti-Nietzsche""; ""Gentile""; ""The Dialectic Immolation of the Object and the Pure Act of Thinking""; ""The Unproblematic Innocence of Becoming""; ""Actualism as Voluntarism""; ""Nihilism as “Ontophobia� in Nietzsche and Gentile""; ""6. Heidegger""; ""Being within the Horizon of Time: Ontology or Ontochronology?""
- ""Knowledge of Being and the Doctrine of Truth""""A""; ""B""; ""On the Entry into Metaphysics""; ""A Digression on the Experience of the Self""; ""Returning to the Problem of Nihilism in Heidegger""; ""A: The Abandonment of the Theoretical and the Marginalization of the Intellect""; ""B: Ontological Difference""; ""7. Eight Theses on Postmetaphysical Thinking""; ""8. The Two Roads of Hermeneutics""; ""The Rise of Hermeneutics""; ""Left-wing Hermeneutics""; ""Interlude: Truth and Method""; ""“Moderate� Hermeneutics and Immediacy: Ricoeur""
- ""Hermeneutics and the Priority of the Ontological Level""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438452081
- 143845208X
- OCLC:
- 877886270
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