Inexhaustibility and Human Being

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.