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Between Levinas and Lacan - Self, Other, Ethics (Hardcover): Mari Ruti Between Levinas and Lacan - Self, Other, Ethics (Hardcover)
Mari Ruti
R4,917 Discovery Miles 49 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them. At first glance, Levinansian and Lacanian approaches may seem more or less incompatible, and in many ways they are, particularly in their understanding of the self-other relationship. For both Levinas and Lacan, the subject's relationship to the other is primary in the sense that the subject, literally, does not exist without the other, but they see the challenge of ethics quite differently: while Levinas laments our failure to adequately meet the ethical demand arising from the other, Lacan laments the consequences of our failure to adequately escape the forms this demand frequently takes. Although this book outlines the major differences between Levinas and Judith Butler on the one hand and Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, and Alain Badiou on the other, Ruti proposes that underneath these differences one can discern a shared concern with the thorny relationship between the singularity of experience and the universality of ethics. Between Levinas and Lacan is an important new book for anyone interested in contemporary theory, ethics, psychoanalysis, and feminist and queer theory.

Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination - Studies in Kantianism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (Hardcover): Saulius... Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination - Studies in Kantianism, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics (Hardcover)
Saulius Geniusas
R3,494 Discovery Miles 34 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How has the concept of productive imagination been developed in post-Kantian philosophy? This important and innovative volume explores this question, with particular focus on hermeneutics, phenomenology and neo-Kantianism. The essays in this collection demonstrate that imagination is productive not only because it fabricates non-existent objects, but also because it shapes human experience and co-determines the meaning of the experienced world. The authors show how imagination forms experience at the kinaesthetic, pre-linguistic, poetic, historical, artistic, social and political levels. The volume offers both a thematic and a historical overview of productive imagination understood as Kant originally wanted us to understand it.

Phenomenology to the Letter - Husserl and Literature (Hardcover): Philippe P. Haensler, Kristina Mendicino, Rochelle Tobias Phenomenology to the Letter - Husserl and Literature (Hardcover)
Philippe P. Haensler, Kristina Mendicino, Rochelle Tobias
R4,108 Discovery Miles 41 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Regarding philosophical importance, Edmund Husserl is arguably "the" German export of the early twentieth century. In the wake of the linguistic turn(s) of the humanities, however, his claim to return to the "Sachen selbst" became metonymic for the neglect of language in Western philosophy. This view has been particularly influential in post-structural literary theory, which has never ceased to attack the supposed "logophobie" of phenomenology. "Phenomenology to the Letter. Husserl and Literature" challenges this verdict regarding the poetological and logical implications of Husserl's work through a thorough re-examination of his writing in the context of literary theory, classical rhetoric, and modern art. At issue is an approach to phenomenology and literature that does not merely coordinate the two discourses but explores their mutual implication. Contributions to the volume attend to the interplay between phenomenology and literature (both fiction and poetry), experience and language, as well as images and embodiment. The volume is the first of its kind to chart a phenomenological approach to literature and literary approach to phenomenology. As such it stands poised to make a novel contribution to literary studies and philosophy.

Telling What She Thinks - Semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude reports (Hardcover, Digital original): Tomoo Ueda Telling What She Thinks - Semantics and pragmatics of propositional attitude reports (Hardcover, Digital original)
Tomoo Ueda
R3,095 Discovery Miles 30 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Frege's puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent. Main tasks of this book include providing truth-conditional content of belief reports. Especially, the focus is on semantic values of proper names. The key aim is to extend Crimmins's basic idea of semantic pretense and the introduction of pleonastic entities proposed by Schiffer. They enable us to capture Frege's puzzle in the analysis without giving up semantic innocence. To reach this conclusion, two issues are established. First, based on linguistic evidence, the frame of belief reports functions adverbially rather than relationally. Second, the belief ascriptions, on which each belief report is made, must be analyzed in terms of the measurement-theoretic analogy.

'Being Towards Death' - Heidegger and the Orthodox Theology of the East (Hardcover): Sylvie Avakian 'Being Towards Death' - Heidegger and the Orthodox Theology of the East (Hardcover)
Sylvie Avakian
R2,903 Discovery Miles 29 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book draws the philosophical contribution of Martin Heidegger together with theological-spiritual insights from the East, especially that of Nikolai Berdyaev. Thus, it brings into dialogue the West with the East, and philosophy with theology. By doing so, it offers Christian theology an existential-spiritual language that is relevant and meaningful for the contemporary reader. In particular, the work explores Heidegger's 'being towards death' (Sein zum Tode) as the basis for theological-philosophical thinking. Only the one who embraces 'being towards death' has the courage to think and poetize. This thinking, in turn, makes 'being towards death' possible, and in this circular movement of thinking and being, the mystery of being reveals itself and yet remains hidden. Since the work aims at demonstrating 'being towards death' through language, it transitions away from the common formulations and traditionally accepted ways of writing (dogmatic) theology towards an original, philosophical reflection on faith and spirituality. At different points, however, the work also retrieves the profound thoughts and theologies of the past, the insightful creativity of which cannot be denied.

Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover): Thomas D. Carroll Wittgenstein within the Philosophy of Religion (Hardcover)
Thomas D. Carroll
R2,595 R1,919 Discovery Miles 19 190 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The commonly held view that Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion is fideistic loses plausibility when contrasted with recent scholarship on Wittgenstein's corpus and biography. This book reevaluates the place of Wittgenstein in the philosophy of religion and charts a path forward for the subfield by advancing three themes.

Philosophy of Music - A History (Hardcover): Riccardo Martinelli Philosophy of Music - A History (Hardcover)
Riccardo Martinelli; Translated by Sarah De Sanctis
R3,096 Discovery Miles 30 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ranging from Antiquity to contemporary analytic philosophy, it provides a concise but thorough analysis of the arguments developed by some of the most outstanding philosophers of all times. Besides the aesthetics of music proper, the volume touches upon metaphysics, ethics, philosophy of language, psychology, anthropology, and scientific developments that have influenced the philosophical explanations of music. Starting from the very origins of philosophy in Western thought (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle) the book talks about what music is according to Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, the Romantics, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Susanne Langer, Bloch, Adorno, and many others. Recent developments within the analytic tradition are illustrated with particular attention to the ontology of the musical artwork and to the problem of music and emotions. A fascinating idea which recurs throughout the book is that philosophers allow for a sort of a secret kinship between music and philosophy, as means to reveal complementary aspects of truth.

Logic and the Art of Memory - The Quest for a Universal Language (Hardcover, New edition): Paolo Rossi Logic and the Art of Memory - The Quest for a Universal Language (Hardcover, New edition)
Paolo Rossi; Translated by Stephen Clucas
R5,958 Discovery Miles 59 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a translation of Rossi's account of the art of memory and the logic of linkage and combination

Critical Semiotics - Theory, from Information to Affect (Hardcover): Gary Genosko Critical Semiotics - Theory, from Information to Affect (Hardcover)
Gary Genosko
R4,920 Discovery Miles 49 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'. The affective turn in cultural studies has received much attention: a focus on the pre-individual bodily forces, linked to automatic responses, which augment or diminish the body's capacity to act or engage with others. In a world dominated by information, how do things that seem to have diminished meaning or even no meaning still have so much power to affect us, or to carry on our ability to affect the world? Linguistics and semiotics have been accused of being adrift from the affective turn and not accounting for these visceral forces beneath or generally other from conscious knowing. In this book, Gary Genosko delivers a detailed refutation, with analyses of specific contributions to critical semiotic approaches to meaning and signification. People want to understand how other people are moved and to understand embodied social actions, feelings and passions at the same time as understanding how this takes place. Semiotics must make the affective turn.

On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum - Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West (Hardcover, 1st... On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum - Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
William V. Spanos
R1,644 Discovery Miles 16 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and emigres seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World War II-and especially after 9/11- it constitutes a series of genealogical chapters that trace the author's journey from his experience as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany to the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. In doing so, it explores his search for an intellectual vocation adequate to the dislocating epiphany he experienced in bearing witness to these traumatising events. Having subsequently lost faith in the logic of belonging perpetuated by the nation-state, Spanos charts how he began to look in the rubble of that zero zone for an alternative way of belonging: one in which the old binary -whose imperative was based on the violence of the Friend/enemy opposition- was replaced by a paradoxical loving strife that enriched rather than negated the potential of each side. The chapters in this book trace this errant vocational itinerary, from the author's early undergraduate engagement with Kierkegaard and Heidegger to Cornel West, moving from that disclosive occasion in the zero zone to this present moment.

The Time of Revolution - Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger (Hardcover, New): Felix O. Murchadha The Time of Revolution - Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger (Hardcover, New)
Felix O. Murchadha
R4,927 Discovery Miles 49 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents Heidegger as a thinker of revolution. Understanding revolution as an occurrence whereby the previously unforeseeable comes to appear as inevitable, the temporal character of such an event is explored through Heidegger's discussion of temporality and historicity. Beginning with his magnum opus, Being and Time, Heidegger is shown to have undertaken a radical rethinking of time in terms of human action, understood as involving both doing and making and as implicated in an interplay of the opportune moment (kairos) and temporal continuity (chronos). Developing this theme through his key writings of the early 1930s, the book shows how Heidegger's analyses of truth and freedom led to an increasingly dialectical account of time and action culminating in his phenomenology of the - artistic and political - 'work'. A context is thus given for Heidegger's political engagement in 1933. While diagnosing the moral failure of this engagement, the book defends Heidegger's account of the time of human action and shows it to foreshadow his later thought of a 'new beginning'.

Dialectic of the Ladder - Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and Modernism (Hardcover): Benware Dialectic of the Ladder - Wittgenstein, the 'Tractatus' and Modernism (Hardcover)
Benware
R4,574 Discovery Miles 45 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought. In this bold and original new study, Ben Ware argues that Wittgenstein's early masterpiece is neither an analytic treatise on language and logic, nor a quasi-mystical work seeking to communicate 'ineffable' truths. Instead, we come to understand the Tractatus by grasping it in a twofold sense: first, as a dialectical work which invites the reader to overcome certain 'illusions of thought'; and second as a modernist work whose anti-philosophical ambition is intimately tied to its radical aesthetic character. By placing the Tractatus in the force field of modernism, Dialectic of the Ladder clears the ground for a new and challenging exploration of the work's ethical dimension. It also casts new light upon the cultural, aesthetic and political significances of Wittgenstein's writing, revealing hitherto unacknowledged affinities with a host of philosophical and literary authors, including Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche, Adorno, Benjamin, and Kafka.

Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion - On Human Creation, Historical Novelty, and the Social Imaginary (Paperback): Suzi Adams Ricoeur and Castoriadis in Discussion - On Human Creation, Historical Novelty, and the Social Imaginary (Paperback)
Suzi Adams
R1,203 Discovery Miles 12 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book features a highly significant discussion between Paul Ricoeur and Cornelius Castoriadis. Recorded for Radio France (Culture) in 1985, it is the only known encounter between these two great philosophers of the imagination. Their wide ranging conversation covers such themes as the productive imagination, human creation, social imaginaries, and the possibility of historical novelty; it reveals points of surprising commonality as well as divergence in their approaches. The dialogue is supplemented by critical essays by specialist scholars in Castoriadis and Ricoeur studies, and includes contributions from Johann P. Arnason, George H. Taylor, Francois Dosse, Johann Michel, Jean-Luc Amalric, and Suzi Adams. The book is a must read for all scholars interested in Ricoeur and Castoriadis studies, as well as those interested in debates on the possibilities and limits of human creation, and the importance of the imagination for social change.

Wittgenstein's Metametaphysics and the Realism-Idealism Debate (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Marius Bartmann Wittgenstein's Metametaphysics and the Realism-Idealism Debate (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Marius Bartmann
R3,633 Discovery Miles 36 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book develops a new Wittgenstein interpretation called Wittgenstein's Metametaphysics. The basic idea is that one major strand in Wittgenstein's early and later philosophy can be described as undermining the dichotomy between realism and idealism. The aim of this book is to contribute to a better understanding of the relation between language and reality and to open up avenues of dialogue to overcome deep divides in the research literature. In the course of developing a comprehensive and in-depth interpretation, the author provides fresh and original analyses of the latest issues in Wittgenstein scholarship and gives new answers to both major exegetical and philosophical problems. This makes the book an illuminating study for scholars and advanced students alike.

Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality (Hardcover): Anya Topolski Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality (Hardcover)
Anya Topolski
R3,800 Discovery Miles 38 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Born in Eastern Europe, educated in the West under the guidance of Martin Heidegger and the phenomenological tradition, and forced to flee during the Holocaust because of their Jewish identity, it should come as no surprise that Emmanuel Levinas and Hannah Arendt's ideas intersect in an important way. This book demonstrates for the first time the significance of a dialogue between Levinas' ethics of alterity and Arendt's politics of plurality. Anya Topolski brings their respective projects into dialogue by means of the notion of relationality, a concept inspired by the Judaic tradition that is prominent in both thinker's work. The book explores questions relating to the relationship between ethics and politics, the Judaic contribution to rethinking the meaning of the political after the Shoah, and the role of relationality and responsibility for politics. The result is an alternative conception of the political based on the ideas of plurality and alterity that aims to be relational, inclusive, and empowering.

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity (Hardcover): Iain D. Thomson Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity (Hardcover)
Iain D. Thomson
R2,273 Discovery Miles 22 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity offers a radical new interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can help lead humanity beyond the nihilistic ontotheology of the modern age. Providing pathbreaking readings of Heidegger's The Origin of the Work of Art and his notoriously difficult Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), this book explains precisely what postmodernity meant for Heidegger, the greatest philosophical critic of modernity, and what it could still mean for us today. Exploring these issues, Iain D. Thomson examines several postmodern works of art, including music, literature, painting, and even comic books, from a post-Heideggerian perspective. Clearly written and accessible, this book will help readers gain a deeper understanding of Heidegger and his relation to postmodern theory, popular culture, and art.

On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics (Paperback): Brent Pickett On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics (Paperback)
Brent Pickett
R1,170 Discovery Miles 11 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sensitive to the discontinuities in Foucault's thought, neither critical nor slavishly devotional, On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics demonstrates how Foucault is relevant for contemporary democratic theory. Beginning with a discussion of the interrelated ideas of power and resistance, Brent Pickett provides an interpretation of Foucault's political philosophy, including a comprehensive overview of the reasons for various conflicting interpretations, and then explores how well the different 'Foucaults' can be used in progressive politics. Accessible and insightful, On the Use and Abuse of Foucault for Politics is valuable for specialists in Foucault and for students of postmodern and democratic theory alike.

Physics and Speculative Philosophy - Potentiality in Modern Science (Hardcover, Digital original): Timothy E. Eastman, Michael... Physics and Speculative Philosophy - Potentiality in Modern Science (Hardcover, Digital original)
Timothy E. Eastman, Michael Epperson, David Ray Griffin
R3,107 Discovery Miles 31 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Through both an historical and philosophical analysis of the concept of possibility, we show how including both potentiality and actuality as part of the real is both compatible with experience and contributes to solving key problems of fundamental process and emergence. The book is organized into four main sections that incorporate our routes to potentiality: (1) potentiality in modern science [history and philosophy; quantum physics and complexity]; (2) Relational Realism [ontological interpretation of quantum physics; philosophy and logic]; (3) Process Physics [ontological interpretation of relativity theory; physics and philosophy]; (4) on speculative philosophy and physics [limitations and approximations; process philosophy]. We conclude that certain fundamental problems in modern physics require complementary analyses of certain philosophical and metaphysical issues, and that such scholarship reveals intrinsic features and limits of determinism, potentiality and emergence that enable, among others, important progress on the quantum theory of measurement problem and new understandings of emergence.

The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback, New Ed): Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback, New Ed)
Albert Camus; Translated by Justin O'Brien 2
R275 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R27 (10%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Myth of Sisyphus is one of the most profound philosophical statements written this century. It is a discussion of the central idea of Absurdity that Camus was to develop in his novel The Outsider. Here Camus poses the fundamental question: Is life worth living? If existence has ceased to retain significance when confronted with the fragmented reality of the human condition, what then can keep us from suicide? Camus movingly argues for an acceptance of reality that encompasses revolt, passion and, above all, liberty.

This volume contains several other essays, including lyrical evocations of the sunlit cities of Algiers and Oran.

On Kierkegaard and the Truth (Hardcover): Paul L. Holmer On Kierkegaard and the Truth (Hardcover)
Paul L. Holmer; Edited by David J. Gouwens, Lee C Barrett
R1,663 R1,361 Discovery Miles 13 610 Save R302 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Husserl's Phenomenology - Knowledge, Objectivity and Others (Hardcover, New): Kevin Hermberg Husserl's Phenomenology - Knowledge, Objectivity and Others (Hardcover, New)
Kevin Hermberg
R5,600 Discovery Miles 56 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Kevin Hermberg's book fills an important gap in previous Husserl scholarship by focusing on intersubjectivity and empathy (i.e., the experience of others as other subjects) and by addressing the related issues of validity, the degrees of evidence with which something can be experienced, and the different senses of 'objective' in Husserl's texts. Despite accusations by commentators that Husserl's is a solipsistic philosophy and that the epistemologies in Husserl's late and early works are contradictory, Hermberg shows that empathy, and thus other subjects, are related to one's knowledge on the view offered in each of Husserl's Introductions to Phenomenology. Empathy is significantly related to knowledge in at least two ways, and Husserl's epistemology might, consequently, be called a social epistemology: (a) empathy helps to give evidence for validity and thus to solidify one's knowledge, and (b) it helps to broaden one's knowledge by giving access to what others have known. These roles of empathy are not at odds with one another; rather, both are at play in each of the Introductions (if even only implicitly) and, given his position in the earlier work, Husserl needed to expand the role of empathy as he did. Such a reliance on empathy, however, calls into question whether Husserl's is a transcendental philosophy in the sense Husserl claimed.

The World Unclaimed - A Challenge to Heidegger's Critique of Husserl (Hardcover, 1): Lilian Alweiss The World Unclaimed - A Challenge to Heidegger's Critique of Husserl (Hardcover, 1)
Lilian Alweiss
R2,496 Discovery Miles 24 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The World Unclaimed" argues that Heidegger's critique of modern epistemology in "Being and Time" is seriously flawed. Heidegger believes he has done away with epistemological problems concerning the external world by showing that the world is an existential structure of Dasein. However, the author argues that Heidegger fails to make good his claim that he has "rescued" the phenomenon of the world, which he believes the tradition of philosophy has bypassed. Heidegger fails not only to reclaim the world but also to acknowledge its loss. Alweiss thus calls into question Heidegger's claim that ontology is more fundamental than epistemology.
"The World Unclaimed" develops its powerful critique of Being and Time by arguing for a return to Husserl. It draws on Husserl's insight that it is the moving and sensing body that discloses how we are already familiar with the world. Kinaesthesia provides a key for understanding our relation to the world. The author thus suggests that thinkers in the vein of Husserl and Kant -who, for Heidegger, epitomize the tradition of modern philosophy by returning to a "worldless subject"- may provide us with the resources to reclaim the phenomenon of the world that "Being and Time" sets out to salvage.
Alweiss's fresh and innovative study demonstrates that it is possible to overcome epistemological skepticism without ever losing sight of the phenomenon of the world. Moreover, Alweiss challenges us to reconsider the relation between Husserl and Heidegger by providing a forceful defense of Husserl's critique of cognition.

From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity - Heidegger's Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017):... From Conventionalism to Social Authenticity - Heidegger's Anyone and Contemporary Social Theory (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Hans Bernhard Schmid, Gerhard Thonhauser
R3,595 Discovery Miles 35 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This edited volume offers a new approach to understanding social conventions by way of Martin Heidegger. It connects the philosopher's conceptions of the anyone, everydayness, and authenticity with an analysis and critique of social normativity. Heidegger's account of the anyone is ambiguous. Some see it as a good description of human sociality, others think of it as an important critique of modern mass society. This volume seeks to understand this ambiguity as reflecting the tension between the constitutive function of conventions for human action and the critical aspects of conformism. It argues that Heidegger's anyone should neither be reduced to its pejorative nor its constitutive dimension. Rather, the concept could show how power and norms function. This volume would be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy and the social sciences who wish to investigate the social applications of the works of Martin Heidegger.

Wittgenstein and Religion (Hardcover): D. Phillips Wittgenstein and Religion (Hardcover)
D. Phillips
R2,884 Discovery Miles 28 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of essays which explores the significance of Wittgenstein for the Philosophy of Religion. Explorations of central notions in Wittgenstein's later philosophy are brought to bear on the clash between belief and atheism; understanding religious experience; language and ritual; evil and theodicies; miracles; and the possibility of a Christian philosophy.

Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being - An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger (Hardcover): Filippo Casati Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being - An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger (Hardcover)
Filippo Casati
R4,464 Discovery Miles 44 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a clear, analytic, and innovative interpretation of Heidegger's late work. This period of Heidegger's philosophy remains largely unexplored by analytic philosophers, who consider it filled with inconsistencies and paradoxical ideas, particularly concerning the notions of Being and nothingness. This book takes seriously the claim that the late Heidegger endorses dialetheism - namely the position according to which some contradictions are true - and shows that the idea that Being is both an entity and not an entity is neither incoherent nor logically trivial. The author achieves this by presenting and defending the idea that reality has an inconsistent structure. In doing so, he takes one of the most discussed topics in current analytic metaphysics, grounding theory, into a completely unexplored area. Additionally, in order to make sense of Heidegger's concept of nothingness, the author introduces an original axiomatic mereological system that, having a paraconsistent logic as a base logic, can tolerate inconsistencies without falling into logical triviality. This is the first book to set forth a complete and detailed discussion of the late Heidegger in the framework of analytic metaphysics. It will be of interest to Heidegger scholars and analytic philosophers working on theories of grounding, mereology, dialetheism, and paraconsistent logic.

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