Nihilism and metaphysics : the third voyage / / Vittorio Possenti ; translated by Daniel Gallagher ; foreword by Brian Schroeder ; Laurie Searl, production ; Kate McDonnell, marketing

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465309903321
• Autore: Possenti Vittorio
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4384-5208-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Collana: SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy
• Disciplina: 149/.8
• Soggetti: Nihilism (Philosophy) - History; Knowledge, Theory of - History - 19th century; Knowledge, Theory of - History - 20th century; Metaphysics - History - 19th century; Metaphysics - History - 20th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 “Ontophobiaâ€? 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""; ""“Moderateâ€? Hermeneutics and Immediacy: Ricoeur""; ""Hermeneutics and the Priority of the Ontological Level""