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- Offers an innovative perspective on the origin of modal ontology
- Shows that incommensurable magnitudes serves as the cornerstone of a philosophy of difference and becoming
- Argues the roots of dynamic ontology can be traced through the mathematical debate about incommensurable magnitudes
Part of the book series: Contributions to Hermeneutics (CONT HERMEN, volume 9)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Readers discover an insightful exchange with some of the most important issues in philosophy, newly reconsidered from the point of view of an ontology of the incommensurable. These issues include the infinite, the continuum, existence, and difference. This text appeals to students and researchers in the fields of ancient philosophy, German idealism, philosophical hermeneutics and the history of mathematics.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
Gaetano Chiurazzi
About the author
He studied and worked as research fellow in the Universities of Torino, Berlin, Heidelberg, Paris, Oxford, Warsaw. His interests are especially directed to philosophical hermeneutics, ontology, metaphysics, theory of judgment, philosophy of translation, with a particular focus on Ancient Greek Philosophy, Classic German Philosophy and Contemporary French Philosophy. He is the author of many publications in several languages and his books are translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian.
With Gianni Vattimo he is the co-editor of Tropos. Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosofica.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamis
Book Subtitle: Ontology of the Incommensurable
Authors: Gaetano Chiurazzi
Translated by: Robert T. Valgenti
Series Title: Contributions to Hermeneutics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69005-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69004-5Published: 08 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69007-6Published: 09 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69005-2Published: 07 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2509-6087
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 179
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hermeneutics, History of Philosophy, Ontology, Philosophy of Mathematics, German Idealism, Continental Philosophy