On the Beginnings of Theory: Deconstructing Broken Logic in Grice, Habermas, and Stuart Mill Book

Introduction     1
What is Metaphysics; Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Derrida?     1
The Project: A Non-Defeatist Deconstructive Analytic     4
Two Incompatible Notions: Interpretational Instability and Structural Instability     7
Three Objections to the Notion of 'Interpretational Instability'     9
The Enigma of Metaphysics     13
Linear Thinking Versus Repetitious Thinking     16
A Final Remark About Conception     18
The Spiral and the Plane-On Foundational Problems in Grice's Theory of Conversational Logic     19
Introduction     19
What is Deconstructive Analysis?     19
Intention as Foundation of Meaning     20
A Reluctant Recourse to Conventionalist Explanation Models     22
Grice's Project in Brief     22
The Distinction between Timeless and Occasion Meaning     22
Intending the Understanding of the Other     25
The Rational Foundation of Communication     27
Grice's Cooperative Subject     27
Foundation and Imperative of the Cooperative Principle     27
Teleological Regulation of Discourse in the Cooperative Principle     30
How Cooperation Causes Misunderstandings; 1st Criticism: Presupposing Sincerity     31
How Cooperation Causes Misunderstandings; 2nd Criticism: Mis-Recognizing Speaker's Intention     33
Recognizing Speaker-Intentions by Understanding Conventions: The Plane     34
A Theory of Meaning or a Theory of Interpretation? The Theoretical Implication of Grice 's Indecision     34
The Meaning of a Hand-Wave; Is Intention the origin of Meaning, or an After-Reconstruction from Meaning Already Understood?     37
The Desideratum and the Supplement     42
Empty-Inner-Mental Constitution of Meaning: The Spiral     46
Redundant Multiple Intentions     46
A Spiral of Still Deeper Nested Intentions as the Foundation of Meaning     49
Hermeneutical Totalitarianism: Meaning as Intended Response in an Audience     51
Excursus: Revisiting the Venerable Problem of 'The Origin of Language'     54
Reintroducing the Problem of 'The Origin of Language' in the 'High-Tech' Jargon of Analytic Philosophy     54
The Origin as the Other: Rousseau and Herder     56
The Origin as the Same: Grice and Schiffer     60
A Desire for Reason-On the Theory of Rational Communication in Habermas     69
The Ideal; Determining the Desiderata of the Theory
Reconstructing the A Priori of Communication     69
Introduction to Habermas' Project     69
Developing Kant and Chomsky in Pragmatic Directions     72
Habermas' Emphatic Sense of 'Understanding'     75
Reconstructing Self-Presence     79
Philosophical Professionalism: Neutralizing the Effects of One's Desideratum     81
The Ideal and the Possible     81
A General Notion of Play     85
The Inside and the Outside
The Legitimate Inside     87
Within the Text, and Beyond     87
The Inside of Three Validity-Claims; The Meaning of the Number Three in Habermas     88
The Illegitimate Outside     93
Reinventing the Perlocutionary Component of Speech-Acts as Strategic Use of Language     93
Concealed Strategic Use of Language     97
Open Strategic Use of language     102
At the Inside of the Inside     109
The Intrinsic Anaseme of the Theory of Communicative Action     109
Recursive Definitions and Self-Reference     110
Strategies of Self-Immunization
Chiasmatic Criticism     113
The Fallacy of Escaping a Fallacy     113
Who is Collapsing What and How Much     114
A Critique of Reason must Employ Reason     116
The 'Pre-Postmetaphysical' Assumptions Behind the Critique of Metaphysics     118
The Notion of 'Fallibilism' as Self-Immunizing Strategy     120
A Postmetaphysical Theory Making Universalistic Truth-Claims     120
First and Third Person     121
Habermas' Double-Bind     123
The Superficiality and Necessity of the Concept 'Fallibilism.'     124
'Fallibilism ' as a Self Immunizing Stratagem     126
The Metaphysical Foundations of Refutating Strategies     128
Philosophical Style and Self-Immunization     128
Performative Contradiction as Philosophical Defense-Mechanism     129
The Anatomy of the Performative Contradiction     131
The Performative Contradiction and Its Phono-Logocentric Foundation     132
Conclusion     134
The Uses and Abuses of Pleasure-The Many Incompatible Voices in Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism     137
Introductory Remarks     137
How to Interpret Mill's Inconsistencies     137
The Naturalistic Fallacy' and the Anasemic Fallacy'     139
Three Distinctions Between Logical Analysis and Deconstructive Analysis     140
Elements of a Logic of Illogicality or an Oneiric Logic     141
Formalizing Nonsense     142
Reinterpreting the Term 'Utility.'     142
The Extreme Definitions of Utilitarianism and their Impossible Medium     144
A First Formula for 'Reasonableness.'     145
The Pleasure-Principle of Utilitarianism- Simultaneous Defense and Rejection of a Principle     147
Definitions and Redefinitions of Pleasure     148
Higher and Lower Pleasures     148
Replacing Quantity with Quality     149
Definitions and Redefinitions of Pleasure     151
Voting on Pleasures-How to Rig the Vote Philosophy-Wise     151
Preferable Unbearable Pleasures     153
Pleasures for Pigs and Fools-Arguing One 's Repressions     154
Definitions and Redefinitions of Pleasure     156
The Standard and the Exception-A Fragile Hierarchy     156
The Pleasure of Promoting Pleasure     157
Condensation as a Means to Erase Discrepancy     158
The Value of Self sacrifice-The Pleasure of Promoting Pleasure Continued     159
Happiness as a Coin-The Pseudo-Logic of Economy     160
A Fourth Paradoxical 'Pleasure ': Renunciation of Pleasure     161
Five Incompatible Pleasures-The 'Moral Passion ' Behind the Moral Theory'     163
The Natural and the Acquired     165
The Supplemental Fallacy     165
Cultivating What Comes Naturally     167
Subjective and Social Feelings as Natural Supplements      168
Virtue as 'Proof' of Utilitarianism     171
Desired and Desirable     171
Explaining Self Contradiction     173
Condensing Means and Ends     175
'Virtue' as Pseudo-Solution to the Transition-Problem     177
Conclusion     181
Notes - List of Literature - Index     185
Notes     187
List of Literature     215
Index     225