The first English translation of Emanuele Severino''s radical critique of the notion of identity, this is a major work from one of the foremost Italian philosophers in the 20th century . Starting from his central intuition that Western culture is essentially nihilism, Emanuele Severino reflects anew on the problem of identity, abandoning the ambiguous (and ultimately contradictory) fashion in which being and becoming are grasped in the Western tradition. In this fundamental work in Severino''s philosophy, the philosopher questions the dominant understanding of identity in Western culture, tracing it back to Aristotle''s definition of identity as "tautotes". In his endeavour, Severino discusses - with his peculiar depth - the most renowned philosophical passages from Hegel, Aristotle, Plato and Kant, giving a radical critique of the notion of identity. This book constitutes part of Severino''s monumental theoretical apparatus, comprising a foundational critique of Western metaphysics which sets him alongside Heidegger at the foundation of contemporary theory. This translation of Tautotes will appeal to those interested in the central problems of Ancient and contemporary philosophy, ontology and metaphysics.

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Emanuele Severino

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The first English translation of Emanuele Severino's radical critique of the notion of identity, this is a major work from one of the foremost Italian philosophers in the 20th century**.**

Starting from his central intuition that Western culture is essentially nihilism, Emanuele Severino reflects anew on the problem of identity, abandoning the ambiguous (and ultimately contradictory) fashion in which being and becoming are grasped in the Western tradition. In this fundamental work in Severino's philosophy, the philosopher questions the dominant understanding of identity in Western culture, tracing it back to Aristotle's definition of identity as "tautótes". In his endeavour, Severino discusses - with his peculiar depth - the most renowned philosophical passages from Hegel, Aristotle, Plato and Kant, giving a radical critique of the notion of identity.

This book constitutes part of Severino's monumental theoretical apparatus, comprising a foundational critique of Western metaphysics which sets him alongside Heidegger at the foundation of contemporary theory. This translation of Tautótes will appeal to those interested in the central problems of Ancient and contemporary philosophy, ontology and metaphysics.

Inhalt

Foreword

1. Becoming, being other
2. Being other, being nothing
3. Dialectics and the contradiction of becoming other
4. Autoproduction of identity
5. 'Result' and 'substratum'
6. Dialectics of finite entities
7. 'In being-other, something's essence is what endures'
8. 'All that changes stays'
9. Non-identity in identity
10. Isolation and relatio identitatis
11. Relatio identitatis and non-isolation
12. Reference to the non-alienated sense of identity and prospectus
13. Subject, predicate, becoming
14. Becoming and the eternity of relation
15. A is B
16. Being together with another
17. Interpretation, identity, eternity
18. Identity of identity
19. Being different from the other
20. Concealed identity
21. Becoming something else and starting to appear
22. Appearing of appearing and identity
23. Appearing of appearing and class logic
24. Still on the two versions of the élenchus
25. Ratione partis subjecti
26. The identity of élenchus
27. 'The élenchus is an identity' is an identity
28. Necessity and identity