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 19thand 20thcenturies as well as in contemporary philosophy can easily be accounted for: it affords the possibility for asking the question:what is there?without engaging in predefined speculative assumptions The issue about “something” seems to avoid...