{"product_id":"zhao-tingyang-an-ontology-of-verbs-1","title":"Zhao Tingyang, An Ontology of Verbs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Ontology of Verbs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe history of philosophy is the history of a specific \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erelationship to language. This relationship is one \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat, in matters of thought, has given priority to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enames. Names are what embody the truth of what \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewe think, what we do and what we are. Names \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare the bricks of thought, best encapsulated into \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econcepts. But what if that were false? What if \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethinking in terms of names has led us to a dead \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eend – the dead end of closed things, of finished \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eentities and of determinate realities? In this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eradically original philosophical essay, Zhao \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTingyang proposes opening us up to a metaphys\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eics of verbs – to a relationship with language \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat no longer forces us to confine ourselves to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethings but opens us up to creation and action. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor philosophy, this would be nothing less than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea new beginning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eZhao Tingyang \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis one of the world’s greatest thinkers. He is pro\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efessor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAcademy of Social Sciences. His last book in Eng\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elish is The Whirlpool That Produced China (SUNY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePress, 2024).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casa dei Tre Oci","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58886253379919,"sku":"PK2562","price":9.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0774\/3068\/6031\/files\/PKB_57771.jpg?v=1790345323","url":"https:\/\/publicknowledgebooks.com\/products\/zhao-tingyang-an-ontology-of-verbs-1","provider":"Public Knowledge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}