Being and motion

Being and Motion offers an original philosophical ontology of movement. The history of philosophy has systematically explained movement as derived from something else that does not move: space, eternity, force, and time. Why, when movement has been central to human societies, did a philosophy based on movement never take hold in the West? This book is the first major work of systematic ontology to answer this question and finally overturn this long-standing metaphysical tradition by placing movement at the heart of philosophy. In doing so, Being and Motion provides a completely new understanding of the most fundamental categories of ontology from the ground up: quality, quantity, relation, modality, and others. It also provides the first history of the philosophy of motion, from the early prehistoric mythologies up to contemporary ontologies. More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility, and yet we lack a single contemporary ontology that takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. Being and Motion sets out to remedy this lacuna in contemporary thought by providing a historical ontology of our present: an ontology of movement.

Introduction I: The Age of Motion: Book I: The ontology of motion: Part I: Ontology and history: Historical ontology -- Ontological history -- Philosophy of motion -- Realism and materialism -- Part II: The Theory of Motion: Flow -- Fold -- Field -- Introduction II: Kinos, logos, graphos: Book II: The motion of ontology: Part I: Being and space: Kinos -- Logos -- Graphos -- Part II: Being and eternity: Kinos -- Logos -- Graphos -- Part III: Being and force: Kinos -- Logos -- Graphos -- Part IV: Being and time -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.