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William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates individual and social being. They are also surprisingly permeable phenomena, and by observing their relations, Desmond captures notes of a clandestine conversation that transforms ontology.

Universals (Philosophy) --- Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Individuation (Philosophy)

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Can we say that metaphysics is over? That we live, as post-phenomenology claims, after "end of metaphysics"? Through a close reading of Levinas's masterpiece Totality and Infinity, Raoul Moati shows that things are much more complicated. Totality and Infinity proposes not so much an alternative to Heidegger's ontology as a deeper elucidation of the meaning of "being" beyond Heidegger's fundamental ontology. The metaphor of the night becomes crucial in order to explore a nocturnal face of the events of being beyond their ontological reduction to the understanding of being. The deployment of being beyond its intentional or ontological reduction coincides with what Levinas calls "nocturnal events." Insofar as the light of understanding hides them, it is only through deformalizing the traditional phenomenological approach to phenomena that Levinas leads us to their exploration and their systematic and mutual implications. Following Levinas's account of these "nocturnal events," Moati elaborates the possibility of what he calls a "metaphysics of society" that cannot be integrated into the deconstructive grasp of the "metaphysics of presence." Ultimately, Levinas and the Night of Being opens the possibility of a revival of metaphysics after the "end of metaphysics".

Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Infinite --- Phenomenology --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995

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Tenu en 1983-1984, le séminaire intitulé L'Un, qui porte sur Descartes, Platon et Kant, est le premier du point de vue chronologique. Il inaugure le cycle de cinq années où Alain Badiou revisite toute l'histoire de la philosophie, de Parménide à Heidegger. Cette excursion passionnante aboutira à la rédaction de L'être et l'événement, dont l'Un est le concept majeur, avec la thèse radicale que, d'une certaine façon, le Sujet a toujours été l'objet de la philosophie.

Ontology --- Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Kant, Immanuel, --- Descartes, René, --- Plato --- Kant, Immanuel, - 1724-1804 --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650

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Entreprendre de définir « ce qu’est un monde » répond au besoin d’éclaircir un concept plurivoque, qui renvoie tout autant à la clôture de notre sphère personnelle, à l’Univers, ou au mouvement planétaire d’ouverture des échanges et des idées qu’est la « mondialisation ». Faut-il admettre comme légitimes tous les emplois du concept de « monde » – on parle en biologie du «monde végétal», en sociologie du « monde ouvrier », en théorie littéraire du « monde de Balzac » – ou reconnaître au contraire un degré privilégié de réalité pour lequel il y a authentiquement « monde »? Faut-il par ailleurs accepter la prétention du concept de « monde » à l’unicité de son objet ? En choisissant de nous interroger sur « ce qu’est un monde », nous mettons explicitement à l’épreuve l’idée que le monde est par définition singulier

Globalization --- Philosophy --- World politics --- Universe --- Monde (philosophie) --- Cosmology --- Plurality of worlds. --- Metaphysics. --- Whole and parts (Philosophy). --- Cosmologie --- Pluralité des mondes --- Métaphysique --- Tout et parties (Philosophie) --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Pluralité des mondes --- Métaphysique

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"What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontological accounts of properties, exploring how their formulation is shaped by the explanatory demands placed upon them. This accessible introduction begins with a discussion of universals, tropes, sets and resemblance classes, the major objections to them and their responses, providing readers with a firm grasp on the competing ontological accounts of what (if anything) grounds similarity and difference. It then explores issues concerning the formulation and justification of property theories such as: how many properties are there? Should we accept a sparse ontology of properties, or an abundant one? Can we make a distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic properties? Do properties have their causal roles necessarily? What is the relationship between properties and other metaphysical phenomena such as causality, laws and modality? These questions get to the heart of why a coherent theory of properties is so important to metaphysics, and to philosophy more generally. By concluding with the question of the ontological status of properties, the reader is introduced to some Carnapian and contemporary themes about the content and methodology of metaphysics. For students looking for an accessible resource and a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary metaphysics, A Critical Introduction to Properties is a valuable starting point."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Ganzheit (Philosophy) --- Mereology --- Totality (Philosophy) --- Unity (Philosophy) --- Wholeness --- Categories (Philosophy) --- Tropes (Philosophy) --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Universals (Logic) --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Logic --- Philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Abstract particulars (Philosophy) --- Particular properties (Philosophy) --- Particulars, Abstract (Philosophy) --- Properties, Particular (Philosophy) --- Ontology