Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium: A Study in Husserl, Heidegger and Gadamer

Title ......Page 2
Copyright ......Page 3
Contents ......Page 4
PREFACE ......Page 8
1. Continental and Analytical Philosophy ......Page 11
2. The Interptxtational Framework ......Page 12
3. Some Qualifications and the Main Theses of this Study ......Page 18
1. Introduction ......Page 21
2. Formalism — Threat and Temptation - The Emergence of Language as Calculus in the Early Writings ......Page 22
2.1. The Semantics of Numbers and the Role of Psychology ......Page 24
2.2. The Interpretation and Re-interpretation of Algorithms — From Psychology to Logic ......Page 33
2.3. Spelling out the Language as Calculus Conception. On the Road to the Logical Investigations ......Page 45
3. Defending the Accessibility of Semantics Against Psychologistic Relativism: The Logical Investigations ......Page 50
3.1. Formal Mathematics and the Theory of Science ......Page 53
3.2. Frege\'s Hidden Psychologism and the Idea of Pure Logic ......Page 57
3.3. Meanings as Abstract Entities ......Page 65
3.4. The Structure and Classification of Meanings ......Page 69
3.5. Truth, Realism, and Knowledge about Abstract Objects ......Page 74
4. Transcendental Phenomenology and the Calculus Conception ......Page 86
4.1. Transcendental Reduction and the Problem of a Transcendental Language ......Page 89
4.2. Husserl, Leibniz, and Possible Worlds ......Page 103
4.3. Noemata, Metalanguage, and the Inexhaustibility of Semantics ......Page 112
4.4. Husserl\'s \"Realism\" ......Page 119
4.5. Life-worlds and the Opposition to Relativism ......Page 126
4.6. Logic and Transcendental Phenomenology ......Page 133
5. Summary of Husserl\'s Notion of Language as Calculus ......Page 140
1. Introduction ......Page 145
2. Heidegger as Adherer to the Conception of language as Calculus in his Early Writings ......Page 146
2.1. Realism and the Critique of Psychologism ......Page 147
2.2. Rickert\'s Influence, the Critique of Logistik, and Truth as Correspondence ......Page 150
2.3. Husserl, Scotus, and Thomas of Erfurt ......Page 153
2.4. On the Way to Being and Time ......Page 155
3.1. Introduction: Heidegger 1919-30 ......Page 158
3.2. Being-in-the-world as Being within a Universal Medium of Meaning ......Page 164
3.3. From Phenomenology as an Absolute Science to Phenomenological Ontology as Hermeneutics ......Page 177
3.4. Logic, Language, Truth ......Page 190
4. \"Language is the House of Being\"—Language as the Universal Medium in Heidegger\'s Later \"Thought\" ......Page 203
4.1. Art and Poetry ......Page 205
4.2. Language and Being ......Page 212
4.3. Language, Art, and the Universal Medium Conception ......Page 224
5. Summary of Heidegger \'s Conception of Language as the Universal Medium ......Page 235
1. Introduction ......Page 239
2. Tradition and the Return of the Subject — Why Heidegger had Reason to Dislike the \"Effective-Historical Consciousness\" ......Page 241
3.1. Introduction ......Page 251
3.2. Heidegger without Geschick ......Page 252
3.3. Husserl\'s Entry ......Page 255
3.4. The Centre of Language, the Speculative Sentence, Spiel and Picture ......Page 257
3.5. Gadamer\'s Universal Medium Conception ......Page 267
NOTES TO PART I ......Page 269
NOTES TO PART II ......Page 270
NOTES TO PART III ......Page 300
NOTES TO PART IV ......Page 320
BIBLIOGRAPHY ......Page 325
INDEX OF NAMES ......Page 353
INDEX OF SUBJECTS ......Page 363