The Ways of Naysaying No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing

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ISBN: 9780742512283 | 0742512282
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/17/2001

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No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will--sometimes just that and nothing more. Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treated imagination, time and now naysaying. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Preface: Purpose and Plan	p. xi
Introduction: The Words of Naysaying	p. 1
The Root of Naysaying	p. 1
The Terms of Naysaying	p. 2
Aboriginal Naysaying: Willful No	p. 7
The Terrible Twos	p. 8
Talking toddlers
Psychoanalytic negation
Devils and Demons	p. 13
Satan's naysaying
Socrates' daimonion
Negative possession
Willful Answers	p. 17
Lying
Contentious no
The Negation of Speech: Logical Not	p. 25
What Is Negation?	p. 26
Discerning
Opposition
Kinds of opposition: Aristotle
Requalification: Dewey
What is negation?
Impervious thought: Frege
Where Is a Sentence Negated?	p. 32
Whether the Positive Is Prior to the Negative?	p. 36
The question itself
The secondariness of negation
Reasons in nature
Reasons in philosophy
The genesis of negation: Fichte
How Is Negation Related to Falsity?	p. 42
The logical terms
Propositional negation: Russell and Whitehead
The bipolarity of logic: Wittgenstein
Worldly truth and propositional negation
Double Negation	p. 49
Negative Self-Reference	p. 52
The Cretan Liar
Discrepancy of thinking and saying
Negative Numbers and Zero	p. 56
The effect of the minus sign
Directed numbers: Kant
The senses of zero
The zero of magnitude: Russell
Nonfact and Fiction: Logical Nonexistence	p. 75
A Modern Problem: Nonexistence	p. 76
Nonexistence versus Nonbeing	p. 78
Nonexistence Defanged: Russell's Theory of Descriptions	p. 81
Nonexistence Established: Meinong's Theory of Objects	p. 86
Meinong Revived: Parsons's Analytic Version	p. 91
Lying and Fiction: Formal Theory and Human Experience	p. 93
The lie in the soul
Lying in propositions
Fiction as lying
The logic of fictions: nonexistence
The critique of nonexistence: Fictions as beings of the imagination
Is Nonexistence a Predicate? Final Questions	p. 103
No: Kant's disposal of the question
Yes: Anselm's captivating proof
Thinking the Unsayable: Philosophic Nonbeing	p. 123
Nonbeing Launched: Parmenides' Poem	p. 123
Nonbeing as unintended consequence
Ways and women
The way of "Is"
The way of "Is not"
The composite way
Nonbeing established
Nonbeing Enfolded in Being: Plato's Dialogue	p. 138
Parmenides in Athens: Socrates' lifespan
The Sophist's thicket: Nonbeing
Coda: The benefits of Nonbeing
The Moving Soul of Thought: Dialectical Negativity	p. 155
The Negativity of the Spirit: Hegel's Phenomenology	p. 156
Negativity as experience
Dialectical negativity
The Negations of Positive Understanding: Kant	p. 159
Real negation
The Table of Nothing
External negation
Negative Reason: Hegel's Logic	p. 162
Thought thinking itself
The first two thoughts: Being and Nothing
Otherness and the Other
The Absolute Opposite: Nothing	p. 169
Appearances of Nothing	p. 170
Nothingness as Attainment: The East	p. 173
Nihilism as Confrontation: The West	p. 175
How we get at Nothing: Kant
Nothing before Being: Bergson
Nihilism as a Modern Movement	p. 179
The nihilistic character: Bazarov
The godlike will: modernity
Unwitting nihilism: Hegel
Implicit nihilism: Wittgenstein
Existential Nihilism: The Nothing That "Naughts"	p. 184
The epiphany of Nothing: Heidegger
The mood of nothingness
"Naughting"
What is Metaphysics?
Nothing as Inescapable End: Death	p. 188
Death as nonexistence
As semi-existence
As Nothing
Cold comfort: Kant
Daily immortality: Socrates
Profound ignorance: personal postscript
Conclusion: What, Then, Is Naysaying?	p. 211
The Position of Naysaying	p. 211
The Negation of Being	p. 213
The Nay and Yea of Imagination and Time	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 233
About the Author	p. 249
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