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Names of nihil
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ISBN: 9401205884 1435647106 9781435647107 904202402X 9789042024021 9789401205887 904202402X 9789042024021 Year: 2008 Publisher: Amsterdam New York, NY Rodopi

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In this book, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, an attempt has been made to point out and systematically explicate the problem scope of the Nothing (which is called Nihil in the book) and to try to explain the springhead of the excessive negativity, inherent only in the human being, or in other words, the springhead of the human’s natural nihilism. Nihilism is treated here not as a posture, pose, or an ideological attitude, but as the spread of the human metaphysical nucleus, of Nihil. Nihilistic annihilation, manifesting itself as the road of the naming of Nihil and of the production of thingly crystals (artificial world) as a result of that naming, usually is called “history”. Names of Nihil (language phenomena), being the antithesis of Nihil, falsify and cover up Nihil itself, turning it into “supreme” being, e.g. into “the One”, “God”, “Substance”, “Matter”, “Spirit”, ad infinitum . This book should be interesting not only to philosophers or humanitarians, but also to all those who concern themselves with the total human condition.


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The thing and art : two essays on the ontotopy of the work of art
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ISBN: 128259429X 9786612594298 9042028815 1441606424 9781441606426 9042025646 9789042025646 9789042028814 9042025646 9789042025646 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi,

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On the grounds of the interpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry and Paul Cézanne’s paintings the book attempts to approach the work of art as a thing. This lets to overcome a one-sided aesthetical interpretation of the origin of the work of art and to indicate its place in the cosmos of uncreated, id est not hominized things. So, the second fundamental issue raised is a try to point out a metaphysical difference between a hominized and not hominized (natural) thing. Such a non-aesthetical point of view is called ontotopy by the author and is opposed to traditional ontology and the philosophy of art.

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