Tautótes

On the Western Meaning of Identity

AvEmanuele Severino,Giulio Goggi

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The first English translation of Emanuele Severino’s radical critique of the notion of identity.Starting from his central intuition that Western culture is essentially nihilism, Emanuele Severino reflects anew on the problem of identity, abandoning the ambiguous (and ultimately contradictory) fashion in which being and becoming are grasped in the Western tradition. In this foundational work in Severino’s philosophy, the philosopher questions the dominant understanding of identity in Western culture, tracing it back to Aristotle’s definition of identity as ‘tautótes’. In his endeavour, Severino discusses – with his particular depth – the most renowned philosophical passages from Hegel, Aristotle, Plato and Kant, presenting a radical critique of identity.This book constitutes part of Severino’s monumental theoretical apparatus, comprising a critique of Western metaphysics that sets him alongside Heidegger in contemporary theory. This translation of Tautótes will appeal to those interested in the central problems of Ancient and contemporary philosophy, ontology and metaphysics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-17
Mått:138 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Works of Emanuele Severino
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350468214
Översättare:Antimo Lucarelli

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Emanuele Severino (1929 –2020) was an Italian philosopher. An original thinker and public intellectual, he is considered one of the most important Italian thinkers of the 20th century.Antimo Lucarelli is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Philosophy Department of Yale University, USA. He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Lucarelli holds a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Philosophical Sciences from the University of Milan, Italy.

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Who is afraid of diversity? While Western thought, obsessed with identity, has absorbed, neutralized, or subjugated the "other", Severino retraces an alternative path that spans from ancient times to the present day: the concept of "becoming", beyond binary oppositions and closed societies.

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Foreword1. Becoming, being other 2. Being other, being nothing 3. Dialectics and the contradiction of becoming other 4. Autoproduction of identity5. «Result» and «substratum» 6. Dialectics of finite entities7. «In being-other, something’s essence is what endures»8. «All that changes stays»9. Non-identity in identity10. Isolation and relatio identitatis 11. Relatio identitatis and non-isolation12. Reference to the non-alienated sense of identity and prospectus13. Subject, predicate, becoming 14. Becoming and the eternity of relation15. A is B16. Being together with another 17. Interpretation, identity, eternity18. Identity of identity19. Being different from the other 20. Concealed identity 21. Becoming something else and starting to appear 22. Appearing of appearing and identity23. Appearing of appearing and class logic24. Still on the two versions of the élenchus25. Ratione partis subjecti 26. The identity of élenchus27. «The élenchus is an identity» is an identity 28. Necessity and identity