Systematic philosophical work

Ontology of the Concept

One architecture, five volumes.

The concept as the immanent form through which reality is articulated, and truth as the robustness of its conditions of validity: Gian Luca Di Tullio’s system is presented here volume by volume, beginning with the Matrix developed in the first.

One architecture,five autonomousvolumes

Ontology of the Concept is a single systematic work articulated in five volumes. Its editorial division does not split the system into independent disciplines: it gives publishable form to the concept’s internal movement, first through the determination of the Matrix of Mediated Truth, then through the analytical development of the four fundamental directions of the Begriff.

This first volume is neither an introduction, a compendium, nor a preparatory apparatus: it is the foundational and regulative volume of the series, a complete work of thirty chapters in four Parts. It determines the system’s architectonic grammar, deduces the six Truth-Validity Levels, constructs the Axis–Level Matrix and the Function–Level Matrix, and formulates the systemic determination of the concept. It is fully autonomous at the editorial and regulative level—it does not ontologically ground the Begriff or reality.

Volumes II–V do not apply a finished grid to external material: they develop the determinations anticipated by the Systematic Table and, in the same movement, put the Matrix’s operational capacity to the test.

Five volumes: the Matrix and the four Axes

The first volume determines the Matrix of Mediated Truth; the four that follow develop, in order, the onto-logical, historical-praxical, linguistic-discursive, and reflexive-methodological Axes.

I

The Matrix of Mediated Truth

General Grammar of Real Determination

Determines the regulative grammar of validity and the overall architecture of the system.

II

The Concept as the Form of Being

Onto-Logical Grounding of the Begriff

Development of Axis 01. Dominant level: Ontological-Foundational.

In preparation

III

The Concept as Praxis, History, and Transformation

Historical-Praxical Ontology of Social Being

Development of Axis 02. Dominant level: Historical-Dialectical-Social.

In preparation

IV

The Concept as Language, Meaning, and the Publicness of Truth

Linguistic-Poietic-Discursive Ontology

Development of Axis 03. Dominant level: Pragmatic-Discursive.

In preparation

V

The Concept as Method, Self-Consciousness, and Freedom

Reflexive Return and Test of Systemic Robustness

Development of Axis 04; it returns the entire path to the Matrix established in the first volume.

In preparation

Choose a volume

Volume I is currently available in Italian, together with a freely accessible English-language extract. The English edition is not yet available and will be published soon. The four subsequent volumes, each devoted to one of the Axes of the concept, are in preparation.

  • Spine of Volume I of Ontology of the Concept Volume I
    English edition soon
  • Volume II
    Forthcoming
  • Volume III
    Forthcoming
  • Volume IV
    Forthcoming
  • Volume V
    Forthcoming

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