Inexhaustibility and Human Being: An Essay on Locality

By Stephen David Ross

At a time when the metaphysical tradition is being called profoundly into question by proponents of pragmatism and continental philosophy, Inexhaustibility and Human Being examines a specific aspect of metaphysics: the nature of being human, acknowledging the force of these critiques and discussing their ramifications.

Exploring the possibility of a systematic metaphysics that acknowledges the limits of every thought, the book offers a metaphysics of human being based on locality and inexhaustibility. Its major focus is on a corresponding anthropology in which human being is both local and exhaustive - that is, based on limitation and on the limitation of limitation.

Among the book's major topics are: being as locality and inexhaustibility; human being as judgment and perspective; knowing and reason as query; language and meaning as semasis; emotion; sociality; politics; life and death.

Clearly written, and wide-ranging in scope, Inexhaustibility and Human Being covers a multitude of subjects - history, love, sexuality, consciousness, suffering, the body, instrumentality, government, and law - in the development of its thesis. The book will appeal not only to philosophers - but also to those involved in studying the various arenas of human activity Professor Ross examines.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823212270
• ISBN13: 9780823212279
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"