Beyond the Limits of Thought [Hardcover]

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 splendidtour 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

Preface
Introduction
1.The limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophyThe limits of expression
2. The limits of iteration
3. The limits of cognition
4. The limits of conception
5.The limits of thought in Kant and HegelNoumena and the categories
6. Kant's antinomies
7. Hegel's infinities
8.Limits and the paradoxes of self-referenceAbsolute infinity
9. Vicious circles
10. Parameterization
11. Sets and classes
12.Language and its limitsThe unity of thought
13. Translation, reference, and truth
14. Consciousness, rules, anddiff?rance
15.Post terminumHiedegger and the grammar of being
16. Nagarjuna and the limits of thought
17. Further reflections
Bibliography; Index