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Book SynopsisIn The Logic of Being, Paul Livingston examines the relationship of truth and time from a perspective that draws on Martin Heidegger's inquiry into the question of being, as well as twentieth-century analytic philosophy of language and logic. In his influential earlier work The Politics of Logic, Livingston elaborated an innovative formal or metaformal realism. In the Logic of Being, he now 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 employs a formal and phenomenological method of analysis to articulate and defend a position of realism about being, time, and their relationship, on which all of these are understood as 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 t
Trade ReviewLivingston’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""
