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Title: Philosophy of Being: A Reconstructive Essay in Metaphysics by Oliva Blanchette ISBN: 0-8132-1096-8 Publisher: Catholic University of America Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Summary: Systematic Metaphysical Exposition
Comment: This is coming from a former student of Professor Blanchette at Boston College. This is the most ambitious, original and erudite philosophy book in some time. This is not a collection of criticisms summing up why the history of philosophy is all wrong, philosopher by philosopher. This is a positive piece of genuine philosophy (as opposed to language analysis or German logic/phenomenology- worship) by a true living philosopher.

This is not to say that Professor Blanchette writes sans context entirely. Rather, he touches on what has been done in metaphysics before him and then moves on to formulate his own metaphysical system. As for the system, it is very "involved" and complex, but it is so common-sensical and deeply rooted in human experience that one finds that the jumps Blanchette asks you to make are not as other-worldly or schoolastic as one would think. Blanchette is very explicit in what he counts as science in general and what is really metaphysics (the science of being AS being).

If you are not interested in a rigorous treatment of being, then by no means read this book. However, if you are interested in metaphysics as genuine philosophy and in reading a book whose author is able to use language to massage your mind to go where he is leading you, then by all means take on this tome.