Form and Object A Treatise on Things

by Garcia, Tristan; Allan Ohm, Mark; Cogburn, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780748681495
• ISBN10: 0748681493
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-04-30
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Mark Allan Ohm is at the Louisiana State University.

Jon Cogburn is Assistant Chair at the Louisiana State University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Translators' Introduction

Series Editor's Preface

Introduction

Book I: Formally

Part I: Thing

I. No-matter-what
To matter
That no-matter-what became something
Thing

II. Less than a thing, more than a Thing
Substance
The vacuity of distinguishing material things from non-material things
Nothing

III. Something
Solitude
IV. Nothing is in itself
Self

V. Compactness
Impossible

VI. Something-other-than-a-thing
Going outside the world is a way of entering inside it

Part II: Thing and World
World

I. Something-other-than-a-thing: the world

II. Where is a thing? In the world
Without me

III. Where is the world?
Exception
What a big thing is
Many worlds

IV. Something-other-than-a-thing: all
Many

V. The accumulation of objects
One, several, whole, equal
Equal

Part III: Being and Comprehending

I. Being is being comprehended
Being is secondary
In
Between

II. That which is a thing, that which a thing is
On meaning

III. The two senses
Tragedy
On interests
Primary

IV. In things: matter
On the composition of a thing
Limit
Hand prints

V. Outside things: form
Forms

Book II: Objectively

I: Universe

II: Objects and Events

III: Time

IV: Living Things

V: Animals

VI: Humans

VII: Representations

VIII: Arts and Rules

IX: Culture

X: History

XI: Economy of Objects

XII: Values

XIII: Classes

XIV: Genders

XV: Ages of Life

XVI: Death

Coda: Formally, objectively
The Chance and the Price

Works Cited

Index