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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livingston, Paul M., 1976- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Ontology.

Realism.

Space and time.

Physical Description:

xv, 257 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2017]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810135208

0810135205

9780810135192

0810135191

OCLC:

958780967