Being and Motion
Thomas Nail
Being and Motion
Thomas Nail
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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 which 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.
"This bold and imaginative book outlines an ontology of being as motion and a materialist conception of the ontological practices that underlay previous Western ontologies of space, eternity, force, and time. Its extraordinary ambition to create a new domain of kinetic philosophy is matched by its scope and wide-ranging erudition. Being and Motion is a book for our time." Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney
"This is a remarkable project, comparable in scope and ambition to Martin Heideggerâs Being and Time. In his earlier books on âkinopolitics,â Nail showed that we have entered a new kinetic paradigm in politics in which the migrant is the primary figure, and states, borders, and citizenship are all secondary phenomena derived from this regime of people-in-movement. Being and Motion takes this project to a broader ontological level, arguing not only that movement must now be seen as the fundamental category of âbeing,â but that ontology itself must become mobile. This is philosophy on a grand scale: bold, innovative, and wide-ranging." Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University
Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion.
"This bold and imaginative book outlines an ontology of being as motion and a materialist conception of the ontological practices that underlay previous Western ontologies of space, eternity, force, and time. Its extraordinary ambition to create a new domain of kinetic philosophy is matched by its scope and wide-ranging erudition. Being and Motion is a book for our time." Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney
"This is a remarkable project, comparable in scope and ambition to Martin Heideggerâs Being and Time. In his earlier books on âkinopolitics,â Nail showed that we have entered a new kinetic paradigm in politics in which the migrant is the primary figure, and states, borders, and citizenship are all secondary phenomena derived from this regime of people-in-movement. Being and Motion takes this project to a broader ontological level, arguing not only that movement must now be seen as the fundamental category of âbeing,â but that ontology itself must become mobile. This is philosophy on a grand scale: bold, innovative, and wide-ranging." Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University
Thomas Nail is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. He is the author of Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo, The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion.