Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being: An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger

This book provides a fresh and innovative interpretation of Heidegger's late work, challenging the notion that it is filled with inconsistencies and paradoxical ideas. It demonstrates that Heidegger endorses dialetheism and presents a coherent and logical defense of the idea that Being is both an entity and not an entity. By grounding theory in a paraconsistent mereological system, the author offers a new perspective on Heidegger's concept of nothingness. This book will be of interest to Heidegger scholars and analytic philosophers working on grounding, mereology, dialetheism, and paraconsistent logic.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 186 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book offers a comprehensive, analytical, and groundbreaking interpretation of Heidegger's later work, a period in his philosophy that has largely been overlooked by analytic philosophers. These philosophers often view this period as filled with inconsistencies and paradoxical ideas, particularly concerning the concepts of Being and nothingness. However, this book takes the claim that Heidegger endorses dialetheism seriously and demonstrates that the idea that Being is both an entity and not an entity is neither incoherent nor logically trivial.

To achieve this, the author presents and defends the idea that reality has an inconsistent structure. By doing so, he takes one of the most discussed topics in current analytic metaphysics, grounding theory, into a completely unexplored area. Furthermore, 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.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032158037