The Logic of Being: Realism, Truth, and Time

by Paul Livingston

Northwestern University Press, 2017
Paper: 978-0-8101-3519-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-3521-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-3520-8
Library of Congress Classification BD331.L588 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 111

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

In The Logic of Being, Paul Livingston examines the relationship of truth and time from a perspective that draws on 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 into 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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

PAUL M. LIVINGSTON is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico and the author of Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness, Philosophy and the Vision of Language, and The Politics of Logic. He is also the author (with Andrew Cutrofello) of The Problems of Contemporary Philosophy and editor (with Jeffrey Bell and Andrew Cutrofello) of Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide.

REVIEWS

"Livingston’s work stands out as highly original and daring. Rather than providing primarily an exegesis of Heidegger’s text, The Logic of Being uses his philosophy to open up a much wider ontological horizon while nonetheless succeeding in carrying out a rigorous close reading. With specific regard to Heidegger, Livingston provides thorough and thought-provoking accounts of the different stages of his oeuvre."—Lorenzo Chiesa, author of The Virtual Point of Freedom: Essays on Politics, Aesthetics, and Religion

The Logic of Being "is significant and promises to forever alter our assumptions about the analytic-continental divide." —Jeffrey Bell, author of Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Difference

"Livingston’s analysis (and synthesis) is topically wide-ranging—grappling with philosophical problems of being, truth, sense, the infinite, and time—and touches on the work of many significant analytic thinkers, including Michael Dummett, Donald Davidson, and Graham Priest. Livingston demonstrates familiarity with both Continental and analytic methodologies, but he makes a concerted effort to avoid unnecessary jargon, so that the work may speak meaningfully to philosophers in both camps. This in itself makes The Logic of Being a valuable read. Recommended."—CHOICE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Truth
Chapter 1: 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

Chapter 2: 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’

Chapter 3: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

Chapter 4: 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

Part 2: Time
Chapter 5: 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

Chapter 6: 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

Chapter 7: 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

4. Non-Heideggerian Ontological-Critical Politics of the Present

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