The Meaning of Something: Rethinking the Logic and the Unity of the Ontology

This innovative volume investigates the meaning of ‘something’ in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy. In fact, the revival of interest in “something” in the 19^th and 20^th centuries as well as in contemporary philosophy can easily be accounted for: it affords the possibility for asking the question: what is there? without eng...