This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity.
Inspired by Wittgenstein’s later work and Derrida’s theory of
deconstruction, it argues that examples are not static entities but
rather oscillate between singular and universal moments. There is a
broad consensus that exemplary cases mediate between singular
instances and universal concepts or norms. In the first part of the
book, Mácha contends that there is a kind of différance between
singular examples and general exemplars or paradigms. Every example
is, in part, also an exemplar, and vice versa. Furthermore, he
develops a paracomplete approach to the logic of exemplarity, which
allows us to say of an exemplar of X neither that it is an X nor that
it is not an X. This paradox is structurally isomorphic to Russell’s
paradox and can be addressed in similar ways. In the second part of
the book, Mácha presents four historical studies that exemplify the
ideas developed in the first part. This part begins with Plato’s
Forms, understood as standards/paradigms, before considering Kant’s
theory of reflective judgment as a general epistemological account of
exemplarity. This is then followed by analyses of Hegel’s conceptual
moment of particularity and Kuhn’s concept of paradigm. The book
concludes by discussing the speculative hypothesis that all our
knowledge is based on paradigms, which, following the logic of
exemplarity, are neither true nor false. The Philosophy of Exemplarity
will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in
philosophy of language, logic, history of philosophy, and literary
theory.
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Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference
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ISBN
9781000776874
Publisert
2022
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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