Being and Motion

Description: More than at any other time in human history, we live in an age defined by movement and mobility; and yet, we lack a single contemporary ontology which takes this seriously as a starting point for philosophy. Being and Motion sets out to remedy this lacuna in contemporary thought by providing a historical ontology of our present: an ontology of movement.

Review Quotes: "This bold and imaginative book outlines an ontology of being as motion and a materialist conception of the ontological practices that underlay previous Western ontologies of space, eternity, force, and time. Its extraordinary ambition to create a new domain of kinetic philosophy is matched by its scope and wide-ranging erudition. Being and Motion is a book for our time."-Paul Patton, Professor of Philosophy, University of New South Wales, Sydney

"This is a remarkable project, comparable in scope and ambition to Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. In his earlier books on 'kinopolitics, ' Nail showed that we have entered a new kinetic paradigm in politics in which the migrant is the primary figure, and states, borders, and citizenship are all secondary phenomena derived from this regime of people-in-movement. Being and Motion takes this project to a broader ontological level, arguing not only that movement must now be seen as the fundamental category of 'being, ' but that ontology itself must become mobile. This is philosophy on a grand scale: bold, innovative, and wide-ranging."-Daniel W. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University