Heidegger, metaphysics, and the univocity of being / Philip Tonner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456949903321
• Autore: Tonner Philip
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; New York, : Continuum, 2009
• ISBN: 1-4725-4681-4; 1-282-59062-6; 9786612590627; 1-4411-1168-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Collana: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetti: Ontology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The univocity of being -- The modern predicament -- The problem of univocity in ancient and medieval philosophy -- From Heidegger to Aristotle -- Medieval philosophy -- Scholasticism -- Heidegger, Scotus, and univocity -- The question of being -- Analogy, the medieval experience of life -- Univocity and phenomenology -- Destruction and tradition -- Metaphysics -- Phenomenological philosophy and aletheia -- Descartes, scholasticism, and time -- The presupposition of the tradition -- Scholasticism, analogy, and the interpretation of Heidegger -- The phenomena of beingness and time -- Beyond being -- The analogical interpretation of Heidegger's text -- Univocity and phenomenological philosophy -- Being and some other key terms -- The phenomenology of being and the question of Dasein -- Transcendental philosophy -- Univocity from 1916 to 1927 -- Cartesian connections and the medieval ontology -- Dasein, univocity, and the question of analogy -- Univocity and fundamental ontology -- Husserl and Heidegger -- Phenomenology, being, and univocity -- Univocity and analogy -- Univocity and Heidegger's later thought -- Mysticism -- The present age -- The later Heidegger -- A-letheia, ereignis, and epochal immanence -- A history of being -- The tradition -- The history of metaphysics -- The medieval and the modern -- A history of the modern : subjectivity -- Univocity and the problem of ; history -- History and civilization -- Art and history -- Fractured history -- Language and poetry -- The fate of univocity -- The re-enchanted forest -- Being mortal; Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Problem of Univocity in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy -- 2. Heidegger, Scotus and Univocity -- 3. Univocity and Phenomenological Philosophy -- 4. Univocity and Fundamental Ontology -- 5. Univocity and Heidegger's Later Thought -- 6. Univocity and the Problem of History -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The Univocity of Being: Deleuze -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Heidegger, Metaphysics and the Univocity of Being, Philip Tonner presents an interpretation of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger in terms of the doctrine of the 'univocity of being'. According to the doctrine of univocity there is a fundamental concept of being that is truly predicable of everything that exists. This book explores Heidegger's engagement with the work of John Duns Scotus, who raised philosophical univocity to its historical apotheosis. Early in his career, Heidegger wrote a book-length study of what he took to be a philosophical text of Duns Scotus'. Yet, the word 'univocity' rarely features in translations of Heidegger's works. Tonner shows, by way of a comprehensive discussion of Heidegger's philosophy, that a univocal notion of being in fact plays a distinctive and crucial role in his thought. This book thus presents a novel interpretation of Heidegger's work as a whole that builds on a suggested interpretation by Gilles Deleuze in Difference and Repetition and casts a new light on Heidegger's philosophy, clearly illuminating his debt to Duns Scotus

Field guide to meteors and meteorites [[electronic resource] /] / O. Richard Norton, Lawrence A. Chitwood

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781801603321
• Autore: Norton O. Richard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Springer, c2008
• ISBN: 1-281-37824-0; 9786611378240; 1-84800-157-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2008.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Collana: Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series, , 1617-7185
• Altri autori (Persone): ChitwoodLawrence A
• Disciplina: 523.51
• Soggetti: Meteors; Astrogeology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Ancient fragments of the solar system -- pt. 2. The family of meteorites -- pt. 3. Collecting and analyzing meteorites.
• Sommario/riassunto: Imagine the unique experience of being the very first person to hold a newly-found meteorite in your hand – a rock from space, older than Earth! "Weekend meteorite hunting" with magnets and metal detectors is becoming ever more popular as a pastime, but of course you can’t just walk around and pick up meteorites in the same way that you can pick up seashells on the beach. Those fragments that survived the intense heat of re-entry tend to disguise themselves as natural rocks over time, and it takes a trained eye – along with the information in this book – to recognize them. Just as amateur astronomers are familiar with the telescopes and accessories needed to study a celestial object, amateur meteoriticists have to use equipment ranging from simple hand lenses to microscopes to study a specimen, to identify its type and origins. Equipment and techniques are covered in detail here of course, along with a complete and fully illustrated guide to what you might find and where you might find it. In fact, the Field Guide to Meteors and Meteorites contains pretty much everything an amateur astronomer – or geologist – needs to know about meteors and meteorites.