Being and Nothing

Préface
In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B. Puntel answers the primordial question of philosophy: "Why at all is there Being and not absolutely nothing?"

Auteur
Alan White is the Mark Hopkins Professor of Philosophy at
Williams College, USA.

Contenu
PART I Chapter 1. First metaphysical approaches: the development of ancient Greek philosophy: from Being itself to metaphysics as the science of beings as beings and to the dimension beyond beingness Chapter 2. Christian-metaphysical approaches in high- and late-scholasticism; from an inchoative Being-theoretical to a purely onto-theo-logical determination of Being and nothing Chapter 3. Leibniz and the question Why is there anything at all rather than nothing? Chapter 4. Nihilism, critique of metaphysics, and the topic Being and nothing: Nietzsche and Heidegger Chapter 5. Sartre's The Being and the Nothing: a purely subjective phenomenological conception Chapter 6. The fading-out and absence of the question about Being itself and absolute nothing in the main stream of analytic philosophy Chapter 7. Relative nothing PART II Preliminary remarks Chapter 1. Essential components of the theoretical framework of the structural-systematic philosophy (SSP) Chapter 2: Systematic onto-logy as theory of beingness/beings Chapter 3. Possible worlds Chapter 4: Disclosure of the dimension of Being: a systematic approach Chapter 5: Making explicit the dimension of Being as the result of the overcoming of the modern philosophy of subjectivity I: Kant and Hegel Chapter 6. Disclosure of the dimension of Being as result of the overcoming of modern subjectivity II: Husserl and the transformation of phenomenology Chapter 7: Disclosure of the dimension of Being as the result of the overcoming of analytic philosophy interpreted as philosophy of subjectivity Chapter 8: Theory of Being I: basic features of a theory of Being as such Chapter 9: Theory of Being II: theory of modal status of the dimension of Being as the ultimate systematic clarification of the topic Being and nothing Chapter 10: Theory of Being III: systematic explication of the modal two-dimensionality of the dimension of Being Afterword: A look back and a look ahead Bibliography Index of names Index of subjects