This second and extended edition of Priest's classic includes new chapters on Heidegger and Nagarjuna, as well as reflections on reactions to the first edition.
Praise for previous edition: "a splendid tour de force, one which should be read by every philosopher..."--Philosophical Quarterly
"(H)ighly entertaining and provocative...an engaging and instructive tour through some of the most perplexing features of our own conceptual finitude..."--TLS

• Preface


• Introduction


• The limits of thought in pre-Kantian philosophy


• 2: The limits of iteration


• 3: The limits of cognition


• 4: The limits of conception


• The limits of thought in Kant and Hegel


• 6: Kant's antinomies


• 7: Hegel's infinities


• Limits and the paradoxes of self-reference


• 9: Vicious circles


• 10: Parameterization


• 11: Sets and classes


• Language and its limits


• 13: Translation, reference, and truth


• 14: Consciousness, rules, and différance


• Post terminum


• 16: Nagarjuna and the limits of thought


• 17: Further reflections


• Bibliography; Index

Graham Priest is Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, and also Arche Professorial Fellow at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of In Contradiction (1987), Introduction to Non-Classical Logic (2001), and the editor of several collections on logic and related subjects. He is also the author of a successful book on Logic in the Very Short Introduction series.