Heidegger and Deleuze

The Groundwork of Evental Ontology

James Scott Bahoh

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Cerebrate
23 January 2023

Age groups: the elderly; Geriatric nursing; Palaeontology

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Throughout the history of Western philosophy, events have most often been assigned a secondary or derivative status with respect to substances or subjects, which are taken to underwrite them. An event, for instance, is understood to be a modification of the attributes of a substance. Linguistically, this framework is replicated in our grammar: a sentence begins with a subject and a predicate, while an event is represented as a change in predicate. However, since the 1930s, a number of philosophers have argued that no ontology can be sufficient without assigning events a primary, fundamental, and ontologically positive status in their own right.1 Remarkably, many have further argued that no ontology can be sufficient without assigning being an evental nature itself.2 In other words, they have advanced what I will call evental ontologies. Many of the central texts arguing for evental ontologies are exceptionally difficult to interpret, and this is often a result of the way their arguments undermine the technical vocabulary of the tradition and its grammar built around subject predication. As a consequence, the reasons for taking such a position are frequently glossed over in relevant scholarship, which opts for either uncritical adoption of the terminology of evental ontologies or the dismissal of them on the grounds of their conceptual obscurity and seeming contrivance.

By: James Scott Bahoh
Imprint: Cerebrate
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9781805240198
ISBN 10: 1805240196
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 23 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active