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