{"product_id":"the-philosophy-of-exemplarity-9781032289670","title":"The Philosophy of Exemplarity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity. Inspired by Wittgensteinâs later work and Derridaâs theory of deconstruction, it argues that examples are not static entities but rather oscillate between singular and universal moments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a broad consensus that exemplary cases mediate between singular instances and universal concepts or norms. In the first part of the book, MÃcha contends that there is a kind of \u003ci\u003ediffÃrance\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Russellâs paradox and can be addressed in similar ways. In the second part of the book, MÃcha presents four historical studies that exemplify the ideas developed in the first part. This part be\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084467302743,"sku":"9781032289670","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032289670.jpg?v=1762206466","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-philosophy-of-exemplarity-9781032289670","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}