Philosophy of Exemplarity - Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference

This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity. Inspired by Wittgenstein's later work and Derrida's theory of deconstruction, it argues that examples are not static entities but rather oscillate between singular and universal moments.

List of contents

Part 1 Preface and Introduction
1.1 Methodology: Singularity, Particularity, Self-Reference
1.2 Terminology of Exemplarity: Example, Exemplar, Paradigm
Part 2 The Life Cycle of a Paradigm
2.1 Singularity: Introducing a Paradigm
2.2 Particularity and Universality: How Paradigms Are Applied
2.3 Self-Reference: The Logic of Exemplarity and the Paradigm Paradox
Part 3 Examples of Exemplarity
3.1 Plato: Forms as Standards
3.2 Kant: Reflective Judgment
3.3 Hegel: Particularity as Exemplarity
3.4 Kuhn’s Paradigms
Part 4 Conclusion: Exemplarity as an Example-Exemplar

About the author

Jakub Mácha is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Masaryk University (Czech Republic). He has published on philosophy of language and classical German philosophy. His most recent book is Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations: Tracing All the Connections (2015).

Summary

This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity. Inspired by Wittgenstein’s later work and Derrida’s theory of deconstruction, it argues that examples are not static entities but rather oscillate between singular and universal moments.

Product details

• Authors: Jakub (Masaryk University Macha, Jakub Mácha
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781032289663
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228966-3
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Literary theory, Philosophy: logic, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism