Tauttes

On the Western Meaning of Identity
The first English translation of Emanuele Severinos radical critique of the notion of identity, this is a fundamental work of the Italian philosopher.

The first English translation of Emanuele Severinos 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 Severinos philosophy, the philosopher questions the dominant understanding of identity in Western culture, tracing it back to Aristotles definition of identity as tauttes. In his endeavour, Severino discusses with his particular depth the most renowned philosophical passages from Hegel, Aristotle, Plato and Kant, presenting a radical critique o