1st Edition
The Philosophy of Exemplarity Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference
Part 1 Preface and Introduction
1.1 Methodology: Singularity, Particularity, Self-Reference
1.2 Terminology of Exemplarity: Example, Exemplar, Paradigm
Part 2 The Life Cycle of a Paradigm
2.1 Singularity: Introducing a Paradigm
2.2 Particularity and Universality: How Paradigms Are Applied
2.3 Self-Reference: The Logic of Exemplarity and the Paradigm Paradox
Part 3 Examples of Exemplarity
3.1 Plato: Forms as Standards
3.2 Kant: Reflective Judgment
3.3 Hegel: Particularity as Exemplarity
3.4 Kuhn’s Paradigms
Part 4 Conclusion: Exemplarity as an Example-Exemplar
Biography
Jakub Mácha is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Masaryk University (Czech Republic). He has published on philosophy of language and classical German philosophy. His most recent book is Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations: Tracing All the Connections (2015).
"Mácha has written an exemplary book about the nature of exemplarity. Drawing on Plato, Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Derrida, and Kuhn, he shows how ordinary individuals can come to play the role of exemplars and standards—and how exemplars and standards can lapse into being ordinary individuals."
Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University Chicago, USA
"Mácha’s insightful book takes up the significant question of what is called an ‘example’ and what functions as ‘exemplary’ or as a paradigm in our everyday practices, in the formation and institution of our values and norms, and in a contemporary reception of the history of philosophical appeals to these notions. Highly recommended for all those who are interested in what contemporary philosophy has to teach us about the meaning of our everyday language, life, and practices."
Paul Livingston, University of New Mexico, USA
