Beyond the Limits of Thought / Edition 2

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This second and extended edition of Priest's classic includes new chapters on Heidegger and Nagarjuna, as well as reflections on reactions to the first edition.
Praise for previous edition: "a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every philosopher..."--Philosophical Quarterly
"[H]ighly entertaining and provocative...an engaging and instructive tour through some of the most perplexing features of our own conceptual finitude..."--TLS
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780199244218
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 2/27/2003
  • Edition description: REV
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 336
  • Sales rank: 493,468
  • Product dimensions: 9.10 (w) x 6.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction 1
Beyond the limit 3
Pt. 1 The limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophy 9
1 The limits of expression 11
2 The limits of iteration 25
3 The limits of cognition 40
4 The limits of conception 56
Pt. 2 The limits of thought in Kant and Hegel 71
5 Noumena and the categories 73
6 Kant's antinomies 85
7 Hegel's infinities 102
Pt. 3 Limits and the paradoxes of self-reference 111
8 Absolute infinity 113
9 Vicious circles 128
10 Parameterisation 141
11 Sets and classes 156
Technical appendix 170
Pt. 4 Language and its limits 177
12 The unity of thought 179
13 Translation, reference, and truth 195
14 Consciousness, rules, and differance 209
Conclusion 225
Pt. 5 Post terminum 235
15 Heidegger and the grammar of being 237
16 Nagarjuna and the limits of thought 249
17 Further reflections 271
Bibliography 297
Index 309
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