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Ousia: An ontological Must
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 27 2026
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ousia: An Ontological Must
Discover the hidden density of the real that modernity has flattened, and reclaim the weight, radiance, and grounding power of the ordinary.
In a world of informational excess and spiritual thinness, where reality feels increasingly weightless despite our digital saturation, Ousia: An Ontological Must issues a defiant philosophical intervention. Drawing from a vast synthesis of classical metaphysics, phenomenology, and cybernetic systems theory, author and systemic semiotician Amir Noferesti diagnoses our modern malaise as ontological poverty. He reveals that the void we feel is not a feature of reality, but a curable blindness born of a historical forgetfulness of Being.
Why this book matters now:
Modernity has exiled the sacred to the fringes of the extraordinary, leaving us adrift in a sterile neutrality of disposable objects and empty gestures. We have privileged the how of information over the what of substance, resulting in a civilization that is hyper-connected yet ontologically homeless. Noferesti charts a revolutionary path back to the density of the real, demonstrating that the cure for our nihilism is not an escape into the abstract, but a radical disciplined astonishment toward the silent, load-bearing structures of our daily lives.
What you'll encounter:
The Metaphysics of Saturated Immanence: How the mundane, the weight of a hammer, the rhythm of a commute, the geometry of a street, is already a densely textured field of ontological revelation.
The Architecture of the Ordinary: A systemic mapping of the harbors of existence, where Aristotle's hexis and Aquinas's consuetudo meet the digital interfaces of late modernity.
Cybernetic Stability and Light: How Suhrawardī's graded light and Mulla Ṣadrā's substantial motion intersect with feedback loops and ultrastability to maintain the continuity of our shared world.
Phenomenology of Dwelling: A recovery of the Lebenswelt (Life-world) and embodied perception, transforming the home and the workplace into sites of concealed theophany.
Regenerative Social Ontology: An ethical summons to move beyond the digital spectacle and rebuild a world grounded in the Symbolic Order and the I-Thou relation.
Perfect for readers of:
Martin Heidegger (Being and Time), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (Phenomenology of Perception), Charles Taylor (A Secular Age), Gregory Bateson (Steps to an Ecology of Mind), Pierre Bourdieu, and Jean-Luc Marion.
If you've ever felt:
The eerie weightlessness of a life mediated by screens...
A suspicion that the simple choreography of a shared meal holds a secret, grounding power...
The exhaustion of a world that prizes the spectacle over the durable...
This is your summons. Noferesti does not offer abstract consolations. He invites you to stand in the quiet hum of existence, embracing the gravity, the habit, and the ritual that make Being livable. Discover the Architecture of the Ordinary and learn to dwell once more in a reality where the sacred pulses through the most familiar textures of life.
A rigorous recovery of the substance we forgot: a roadmap for those daring to find the ultimate in the ordinary.
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