The logic of being : realism, truth, and time / Paul M. Livingston.

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Livingston, Paul M., 1976- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2017]
Description
xv, 257 pages ; 23 cm

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    In The Logic of Being, Paul M. Livingston examines the relationship of truth and time from a perspective that draws on both Martin Heidegger's thought and twentieth-century analytic philosophy. In his influential earlier work The Politics of Logic, Livingston elaborated an innovative "formal" or "metaformal" realism. Here he extends this concept to include a "temporal realism" that accounts for the reality of temporal change and becoming while also preserving realism about logic and truth. Livingston's formal and phenomenological analysis articulates and defends a realist position about being, time, and their relationship that understands that all of these are structured and constituted in a way that does not depend on the human mind, consciousness, or subjectivity. This approach provides a basis for new logically and phenomenologically based accounts of the structure of linguistic truth in relation to the appearance of objects and of the formal structure of time as given. Livingston draws on philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Davidson and Heidegger in this exploration. In it, readers and scholars will discover innovative connections between continental and analytic philosophy. -- from back cover.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-247) and index.
    Contents
    • Truth
    • The logic of being : Plato, Heidegger, Frege
    • Plato : a problem of time and being
    • Heidegger : the sophist and the onto-theo-logy of being
    • Frege : truth, sense, and the logic of judgment
    • Heidegger : from onto-theo-logy to philosophical chronology
    • The early Heidegger and the givenness of form
    • Husserl : categorial intuition and transcendental logic
    • Dasein and the hermeneutics of facticity
    • The formal indication of being and time
    • Critique of Husserl : time, ideality, and the being of the "subject"
    • The ontology of sense and "transcendental" truth : Heidegger and Davidson
    • Davidson and Heidegger on "transcendental" truth
    • Hermeneutics of truth : a twofold picture
    • Consequences of "transcendental" truth 1 : sense and presentation
    • Consequences of "transcendental" truth 2 : limit-structure of linguistic truth
    • The undecidability of sense and the history of being
    • The institution of language and the undecidability of sense
    • Against relativism : conceptual change and the history of being
    • Historical temporality of language and world
    • Formal-ontological consequences : inclosure and contradiction
    • Time
    • Metaformal realism and the ontological problematic
    • A realism of the real
    • Thinking and being : the four orientations of thought
    • Dummett : realism and the basis of sense
    • Metaformal realism, ontological realism, temporal realism
    • Sense, time, and paradox
    • Kant and the structure of finitude
    • Temporality and the grammatical investigation
    • Paradoxical structure of given time
    • Consequences of the structure : generic and paradoxico-critical interpretations
    • Gestell, Ereignis, and eternal return
    • The essence of technology and the (in)closure of metaphysics
    • Temporal-paradoxical overcoming of onto-theo-logy
    • Metaformal figuration of temporal paradox : eternal return
    • Non-Heideggerian ontological-critical politics of the present.
    ISBN
    • 9780810135208 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 0810135205 ((hardcover : alkaline paper))
    • 9780810135192 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    • 0810135191 ((paperback : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2017000585
    OCLC
    958780967
    Other standard number
    • 13170143
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