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- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Sometimes Always True 1
- 1. Comparing Different Cultural or Theoretical Frameworks: Davidson, Rorty, and the Nature of Truth 32
- 2. An Internal Connection between Logic and Rhetoric, between Frameworks, and a Legitimate Foundation for Knowledge 54
- 3. Pluralism, Legitimate Self- Contradiction, and a Proposed Solution to Some Shared Fundamental Problems of Political and Mainstream Epistemology 78
- 4. The Logic of Genuine Political Pluralism and Oscar Wilde’s Artificiality of Wit and Style 102
- 5. Foucault’s Pluralism and the Possibility of Truth and of Ideology Critique 129
- 6. How to Be Properly Unnatural: The Metaphysics of Heterosexual Normativity and the Importance of the Concepts of Essence and Nature for Pluralism 150
- 7. The Necessary Inconclusiveness of Heideggerian Interpretation of Metaphysics and the Undecided Nature of Essential or Logical Connection 179
- 8. The Formal Structure of Metaphysics and The Importance of Being Earnest 202
- 9. The Logical Structure of Dreams and Their Relation to Reality 231
- Coda: Overviews 259
- References 281
- Index 293
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Sometimes Always True 1
- 1. Comparing Different Cultural or Theoretical Frameworks: Davidson, Rorty, and the Nature of Truth 32
- 2. An Internal Connection between Logic and Rhetoric, between Frameworks, and a Legitimate Foundation for Knowledge 54
- 3. Pluralism, Legitimate Self- Contradiction, and a Proposed Solution to Some Shared Fundamental Problems of Political and Mainstream Epistemology 78
- 4. The Logic of Genuine Political Pluralism and Oscar Wilde’s Artificiality of Wit and Style 102
- 5. Foucault’s Pluralism and the Possibility of Truth and of Ideology Critique 129
- 6. How to Be Properly Unnatural: The Metaphysics of Heterosexual Normativity and the Importance of the Concepts of Essence and Nature for Pluralism 150
- 7. The Necessary Inconclusiveness of Heideggerian Interpretation of Metaphysics and the Undecided Nature of Essential or Logical Connection 179
- 8. The Formal Structure of Metaphysics and The Importance of Being Earnest 202
- 9. The Logical Structure of Dreams and Their Relation to Reality 231
- Coda: Overviews 259
- References 281
- Index 293