Everything about Haecceity

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: HaecceityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Divine Haecceity : Reclaiming the Literary Character of God in Hebrew Scripture with Rosenzweig and MiskotteInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information : Volume IIThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Haecceity: Laying Out a Plane for Post Qualitative InquiryCited 74 times
5. Go sideways: Scotistic realismA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Principle of individuationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Haecceity: Laying Out a Plane for Post Qualitative Inquiry

  Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre · 2017 · Qualitative Inquiry · 74 citations

• Writing, Haecceity, Data, and Maybe More

  Jennifer Charteris, Sarah Crinall, Linette Etheredge · 2019 · Qualitative Inquiry · 11 citations

• Cultivating a dark haecceity: a pedagogy of the uncanny and dark transports

  Delphi Carstens · 2018 · Parallax · 10 citations

• Quiddity and haecceity as distinct forms of essentialism

  Bruce Hood · 2014 · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 5 citations

• Quantum Haecceity

  Ruth E. Kastner · 2023 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences · 3 citations

• The Zone of Photography: Magic, Ghosts and Haecceity

  Tom Slevin · 2023 · Arts · 2 citations

• Angels, Matter, and Haecceity: Scholastic Topoi for Leibnizian Individuation

  Stefano Di Bella · 2014 · Studia Leibnitiana · 2 citations

• Haecceity of Becoming-Mother: A Diffractive Analysis of Babywearing Through a Global Pandemic

  Louise Platt · 2023 · Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies · 2 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Divine Haecceity : Reclaiming the Literary Character of God in Hebrew Scripture with Rosenzweig and Miskotte

  Collin Cornell · 2024 · The Expository Times · 1 citations

• Haecceity Mereology

  Ruoyu Zhang · 2022 · Metaphysica · 1 citations

• Haecceity, inscape and sprung rhythm in aesthetic accounts of nature, species and spirituality: exploring the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ

  Frances Jill Atkins · 2026 · Accounting and Management Review | Revista de Contabilidade e Gestão · 1 citations

• Haecceity Altercation: Thisness as Pedagogy

  David A. G. Clarke · 2023 · Qualitative Inquiry · 1 citations

• Haecceity and the Ethics of Presence: A Deleuzean Perspective on Forrest Gump

  The Criticism and Theory Society of Korea, Jae-seong Lee · 2025 · The Criticism and Theory Society of Korea · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information : Volume IIGilbert Simondon, Taylor Adkins · 2020
• HaecceityGary S. Rosenkrantz · 1993
• 📕Hegel, ou, Le festin de SaturneRomain Debluë · 2019
• MiasmaJohn W. McGinley · 1996
• 📕De la singularitéJean-Pierre Coutard · 2009
• 📕Être et véritéLucien-Samir Oulahbib · 2016
• 📕Individuation, Process, and Scientific PracticesOtávio Bueno, Ruey-Lin Chen · 2018
• The thing and artArvydas Šliogeris · 2009

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🔗 Related topics

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• Principle of individuation The principle of individuation is a criterion that individuates or numerically distinguishes the members of the kind for which it is given, that is by…
• Formal distinction In scholastic metaphysics, a formal distinction is a distinction intermediate between what is merely conceptual, and what is fully real or mind-independent—a…
• Haecceitism Haecceitism is a philosophical concept that stems from the field of metaphysics, particularly dealing with the nature of individuality and identity. The…
• Quiddity In scholastic philosophy, "quiddity" (/ˈkwɪdɪti/; Latin: quidditas) is another term for the essence of an object, literally its "whatness" or "what it…
• Univocity of being Univocity of being is a religious philosophy originating in Medieval Christianity that states that words describing the properties of God mean the same…
• Duns Scotus John Duns Scotus (/ˈdʌnz ˈskoʊtəs/ dunz SKOH-təs; Ecclesiastical Latin: [duns ˈskɔtus], 'Duns the Scot'; c. 1265/66 – 8 November 1308) was a Scottish Catholic…
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