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"Synthesizing and extending many years of influential work, the Philosophy of Movement is a comprehensive argument for how motion is the primary force in human and natural history. Thomas Nail interrogates the consequences of movement throughout history and in daily life in the twenty-first century, drawing connections and tracing patterns between scales of reality, periods of history, and fields of knowledge to offer a contemporary philosophy"--
List of contents
Contents
Foreword. Philosophy in Motion: Thomas Nail’s Kinetic Materialism
Daniel W. Smith
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Theory
1. Process Materialism
2. Matter and Motion
3. The Vortex and the Dendrite
4. Theory of History
5. Theory of Knowledge
Part II. History
6. History of Earth
7. Human Prehistory
8. The Ancient World
9. The Medieval and Early Modern Periods
10. Modernity
Part III. Ethics
11. Life and Death
12. Movement-Oriented Knowledges and the Ethics of Play
Conclusion: Questions and Criticisms
Notes
Index
About the author
Thomas Nail is distinguished scholar and professor of philosophy at the University of Denver. He is author of many books, including
Matter and Motion: A Brief History of Kinetic Materialism; Lucretius III: A History of Motion; Theory of the Object; and
Being and Motion.
Daniel W. Smith is professor of philosophy at Purdue University. He has translated, from the French, books by Gilles Deleuze, Pierre Klossowski, Isabelle Stengers, and Michel Serres.
