The expansion of metaphysics / Miklós Vető ; translated by William C. Hackett ; with a foreword by David Carr.
| Author/creator | Vetö, Miklós, 1936- |
| Other author | Hackett, William C. |
| Other author | Carr, David. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2018. |
| Description | xxvii, 356 pages ; 26 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Élargissement de la métaphysique. English |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Book one First philosophy -- i. The image -- The nothing of subjectivity -- Distantiation of the ectype -- The autonomy of the image -- The artistic image -- From dissimilarity to auto-figuration -- ii. Newness: premises and regressions -- Renewing newness -- Becoming less than perfect: the withdrawal of god and the descent of the son -- Thinking the new: the power of synthesis -- The thorns of analysis -- Nature: variations on immanence -- Limits and pitfalls of justice -- Reciprocity -- iii. Newness: figures and paths -- The horizons of potentiality -- From superabundance to tearing away -- Self-exit and self-surpassing -- Freedom -- meaning -- Love I -- Sacrifice -- Double asymmetry -- Faithfulness -- Towards the third -- iv. The singular -- The third -- Distinction and differentiation -- Intrinsic differentiation -- Syntheses of singularity -- From the singular to the unique -- Things -- The work of art -- Works of art -- v. The unique -- Asymmetrical love -- The child -- Paternity: creation and procreation -- Monads -- Ectypes and copies -- The shadow and the double -- The image-child -- ... The unique ones -- Book two Eidetics -- vi. Space: from homogeneity to war -- Material essences and synthetic a priori eide -- The forms of dispersion -- Extension and exteriority -- From indifference to hostility -- War -- vii. Spatial eide -- Beyond homogeneity -- Space and color -- Figure and place -- Extension and expansion -- Curves -- Center: symmetry and asymmetry -- Dimensions and directions -- Magnitude and distance -- From breadth to remoteness -- Depth i -- Height -- viii. Time -- Change and corruption -- Power and powerlessness of the now -- The infinite divisibility: work and money -- The unfolding of the given -- Repetition and rhythm -- The irreversibility of death -- ix. Times -- Towards an eidetic of chronos -- Duration -- Synthesis and schema -- Past, future, present -- The present: duration and differentiation -- The moving image of eternity -- Pleasure -- Peace -- The form of the past and retention -- Memory and history -- Protention and the future -- Hope -- x. The will -- The human self -- Desire -- Intention -- The indivisibility and immediacy of the will -- Will, causality, temporality -- Time and will -- The renewal of desire: the request for forgiveness -- xi. The dual will and practical knowledge -- Enlarged homogeneity -- The wills -- How to want more? -- Philosophy of the will and moral formalism -- Sincerity and rigorism -- Will and practical knowledge -- Practical feeling -- The knowledge of good and evil -- xii. The reality and scope of evil -- Evil as metaphysical category -- The positivity of evil -- The spirituality of evil -- The impossibility of evil -- Radical evil -- Evil for evil's sake -- From evil to the good -- xiii. The good -- Beyond being, beyond essence -- From newness to goodness -- Kenosis as will -- The good's self-diffusion. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-356). |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018303180 |
| ISBN | 9781498231251 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 149823125X (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781498231275 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1498231276 (hardcover) |
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