Tautótes: On the Western Meaning of Identity: The Works of Emanuele Severino
Autor Emanuele Severino Traducere de Antimo Lucarellien Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2026
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 foundational 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 particular depth - the most renowned philosophical passages from Hegel, Aristotle, Plato and Kant, presenting a radical critique of identity.
This book constitutes part of Severino's monumental theoretical apparatus, comprising a critique of Western metaphysics that sets him alongside Heidegger in contemporary theory. This translation of Tautótes will appeal to those interested in the central problems of Ancient and contemporary philosophy, ontology and metaphysics.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350468207
ISBN-10: 1350468207
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Works of Emanuele Severino
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350468207
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Works of Emanuele Severino
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
Who is afraid of diversity? While Western thought, obsessed with identity, has absorbed, neutralized, or subjugated the "other", Severino retraces an alternative path that spans from ancient times to the present day: the concept of "becoming", beyond binary oppositions and closed societies.
Though we refer all the time to the concept of identity, we rarely explore the levels of meaning contained within the term. The depth of Emanuele Severino's critique of Western understanding of identity, available in Antimo Lucarelli's fine translation of his work, his elucidation of the philosophical contradictions inherent in the term, and his startling exposition of the relation between identity and alterity, will be of immediate interest to readers approaching the question of the meaning of identity in a very broad range of contexts.
Though we refer all the time to the concept of identity, we rarely explore the levels of meaning contained within the term. The depth of Emanuele Severino's critique of Western understanding of identity, available in Antimo Lucarelli's fine translation of his work, his elucidation of the philosophical contradictions inherent in the term, and his startling exposition of the relation between identity and alterity, will be of immediate interest to readers approaching the question of the meaning of identity in a very broad range of contexts.