After Philosophy

Author : Kenneth Baynes,James Bohman,Thomas A. McCarthy,Thomas McCarthy
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 026252113X

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After Philosophy by Kenneth Baynes,James Bohman,Thomas A. McCarthy,Thomas McCarthy Pdf

After Philosophy provides an excellent framework for understanding the most important strains of current philosophical work in North America, England, France, and Germany. The selections from the work of fourteen contemporary philosophers not only display the multiplicity of approaches being pursued since the breakup of any consensus on what philosophy is, but also help to clarify this proliferation of views and to spell out today's basic options for doing, or not doing, philosophy today. With a general introduction delineating what is in dispute between the different parties to the end-of-philosophy debates, brief introductions to the thought of each author, and suggestions for further reading following each selection, After Philosophy is ideally suited for use in any course that includes an overview of the bewildering variety of contemporary approaches to philosophy.The major sections and contributors are: I. The End of Philosophy. Richard Rorty Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida. II. The Transformation of Philosophy: Systematic Proposals. Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, Hilary Putnam, Karl-Otto Apel, Jürgen Habermas. III. The Transformation of Philosophy: Hermeneutics, Narrative, Rhetoric. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, Alasdair Maclntyre, Hans Blumenberg, Charles Taylor.Kenneth Baynes is currently doing postgraduate research at the University of Frankfurt. James Bohman lectures in philosophy at Boston University, and Thomas McCarthy is a professor of philosophy at Northwestern University and the editor of the MIT Press series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.

Author : Joe Hughes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441195166

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Philosophy After Deleuze by Joe Hughes Pdf

A clear and concise overview of and introduction to Deleuze's work in relation to philosophical inquiry.

Author : Morny Joy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1552385027

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After Appropriation by Morny Joy Pdf

After Appropriation consists of thirteen essays stemming from the workshop, each of which addresses an issue or illustrates a problem in the interdisciplinary field of comparative religion and philosophy as it is presently conceived. Many misappropriations and exclusions have arisen from the Western tendency to reduce and manipulate the ideas and values of non-Western religions and philosophies to fit within Western concepts and categories. How might comparative philosophy and religion change if the concepts and categories of non-Western philosophies and religions were taken as primary? This book explores this question through analytic and phenomenological Western approaches, infused with fresh strategies and modalities derived from or inspired by non-Western traditions. In a world of increasing pluralism and continuing globalization, there is a growing need to elevate discussion of these issues to a more sophisticated level.

Author : Stanley Cavell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674022327

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Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow by Stanley Cavell Pdf

Seeking for philosophy the same spirit and assurance conveyed by artists like Fred Astaire, Cavell presents essays exploring the meaning of grace and gesture in film and on stage, in language and in life. Critical to the renaissance in American thought Cavell hopes to provoke is the recognition of the centrality of the “ordinary” to American life.

Author : John T. Lysaker
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253026033

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After Emerson by John T. Lysaker Pdf

The author of Emerson & Self-Culture shares essays covering such themes as identity, experience, ethics, poetry, philosophy, history, and race. John T. Lysaker works between and weaves together questions and replies in philosophical psychology, Emerson studies, and ethics in this book of deep existential questioning. Each essay in this atypical, philosophical book employs recurring terms, phrases, and questions that characterize our contemporary age. Setting out from the idea of where we are in an almost literal sense, Lysaker takes readers on an intellectual journey into thematic concerns and commitments of broad interest, such as the nature of self and self-experience, ethical life, poetry and philosophy, and history and race. In the manner of Emerson, Cavell, and Rorty, Lysaker’s vibrant writing is certain to have a transformative effect on American philosophy today. “An original and stimulating book, manifesting a level of reflection and existential concern of the highest order. It is intellectually and personally honest.” —Robert E. Innis, author of Susanne Langer in Focus “There is something fresh and hence refreshing in the manner in which John T. Lysaker takes up familiar topics. He shows, with both arresting details and an evolving design, how the conduct of life (to use Emerson’s expression) demands a form of thought frequently at odds with contemporary fashions and preoccupations, with institutionally entrenched approaches and all too rigidly policed discourses.” —Vincent Colapietro, author of Experience, Interpretation, and Community “Acknowledged as one of his generations premier Emerson scholars, Lysaker goes beyond his earlier work, Emerson & Self-Culture . . . [T]he writing is stimulating, vibrant, challenging, risky, and fecund. Recommended.” —D. B. Boersma, Choice

Author : Paul Crowther
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134388615

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Philosophy After Postmodernism by Paul Crowther Pdf

Formulating a new approach to philosophy, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.

Author : Richard L. Velkley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226852563

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Being After Rousseau by Richard L. Velkley Pdf

In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture—a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature and society, culture and civilization, and philosophy and society that Rousseau brought to the fore. The Rousseauian tradition begins, for Velkley, with Rousseau's criticism of modern political philosophy. Although the German Idealists such as Schelling accepted much of Rousseau's critique, they believed, unlike Rousseau, that human wholeness could be attained at the level of society and history. Heidegger and Nietzsche questioned this claim, but followed both Rousseau and the Idealists in their vision of the philosopher-poet striving to recover an original wholeness that the history of reason has distorted.

Author : Robert C. Scharff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134626731

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How History Matters to Philosophy by Robert C. Scharff Pdf

In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts with the question of whether philosophy’s past should matter, but Scharff argues that the very existence of the debate itself demonstrates that it already does matter. After an introductory review of the recent literature, he develops his case in two parts. In Part One, he shows how history actually matters for even Plato’s Socrates, Descartes, and Comte, in spite of their apparent promotion of conspicuously ahistorical Platonic, Cartesian, and Positivistic ideals. In Part Two, Scharff argues that the real issue is not whether history matters; rather it is that we already have a history, a very distinctive and unavoidable inheritance, which paradoxically teaches us that history’s mattering is merely optional. Through interpretations of Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Heidegger, he describes what thinking in a historically determinate way actually involves, and he considers how to avoid the denial of this condition that our own philosophical inheritance still seems to expect of us. In a brief conclusion, Scharff explains how this book should be read as part of his own effort to acknowledge this condition rather than deny it.

Author : Johann Eduard Erdmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : CUB:P203022710005

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A History of Philosophy: German philosophy since Hegel by Johann Eduard Erdmann Pdf

Author : Elena Glazov-Corrigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814256341

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Art After Philosophy by Elena Glazov-Corrigan Pdf

Art after Philosophy: Boris Pasternak's Early Prose, by Elena Glazov-Corrigan, redefines an area in Slavic studies which has suffered from neglect for several decades, namely, Pasternak's early prose narratives. In her bold new study, Glazov-Corrigan analyzes the conceptual networks of thought Pasternak developed when he turned to literature after abandoning the study of Neo-Kantianism in Marburg during the summer of 1912. This book shows conclusively that Pasternak's knowledge of philosophy is inseparable from his prose works, even though in his early stories and novellas (1913-1918) philosophical ideas operate neither as discrete textual units nor as micro-elements or clusters of possible signification. In the early Pasternak, philosophy becomes a narrative art, a large-scale narrative frame, a manner of seeing rather than of constructing reality. After Roman Jakobson's famous 1935 essay, which characterized the early Pasternak as a "virtuoso of metonymy," in contrast to the metaphoric Mayakovsky, no other approach has been able to generate comparable scholarly influence. The present study takes up the implicit challenge of this critical impasse. Entering into a debate with Jakobson's findings, Art after Philosophy illuminates Pasternak's boldest artistic experiments and suggests to his readers entirely new ways of approaching not only his early but also his later writing.

Author : Michael Ruse
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691135533

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Philosophy After Darwin by Michael Ruse Pdf

An anthology of essential writings that cover some of the most influential ideas about the philosophical implications of Darwinism, since the publication of "On the Origin of Species".

Author : Tim Mulgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317547730

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Ethics for a Broken World by Tim Mulgan Pdf

Imagine living in the future in a world already damaged by humankind, a world where resources are insufficient to meet everyone's basic needs and where a chaotic climate makes life precarious. Then imagine looking back into the past, back to our own time and assessing the ethics of the early twenty-first century. "Ethics for a Broken World" imagines how the future might judge us and how living in a time of global environmental degradation might utterly reshape the politics and ethics of the future. This book is presented as a series of history of philosophy lectures given in the future, studying the classic texts from a past age of affluence, our own time. The central ethical questions of our time are shown to look very different from the perspective of a ruined world. The aim of "Ethics for a Broken" World is to look at our present with the benefit of hindsight - to reimagine contemporary philosophy in an historical context - and to highlight the contingency of our own moral and political ideals.

Author : Charles Griswold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521703512

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Forgiveness by Charles Griswold Pdf

The first comprehensive philosophical book on forgiveness in both its interpersonal and political contexts.

Author : Frederick C. Beiser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691173719

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After Hegel by Frederick C. Beiser Pdf

Histories of German philosophy in the nineteenth century typically focus on its first half—when Hegel, idealism, and Romanticism dominated. By contrast, the remainder of the century, after Hegel's death, has been relatively neglected because it has been seen as a period of stagnation and decline. But Frederick Beiser argues that the second half of the century was in fact one of the most revolutionary periods in modern philosophy because the nature of philosophy itself was up for grabs and the very absence of certainty led to creativity and the start of a new era. In this innovative concise history of German philosophy from 1840 to 1900, Beiser focuses not on themes or individual thinkers but rather on the period’s five great debates: the identity crisis of philosophy, the materialism controversy, the methods and limits of history, the pessimism controversy, and the Ignorabimusstreit. Schopenhauer and Wilhelm Dilthey play important roles in these controversies but so do many neglected figures, including Ludwig Büchner, Eugen Dühring, Eduard von Hartmann, Julius Fraunstaedt, Hermann Lotze, Adolf Trendelenburg, and two women, Agnes Taubert and Olga Pluemacher, who have been completely forgotten in histories of philosophy. The result is a wide-ranging, original, and surprising new account of German philosophy in the critical period between Hegel and the twentieth century.

Author : Martin Koci
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438478937

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Thinking Faith After Christianity by Martin Koci Pdf

This book examines the work of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka from the largely neglected perspective of religion. Patočka is known primarily for his work in phenomenology and ancient Greek philosophy, and also as a civil rights activist and critic of modernity. In this book, Martin Koci shows Patočka also maintained a persistent and increasing interest in Christianity. Thinking Faith after Christianity examines the theological motifs in Patočka's work and brings his thought into discussion with recent developments in phenomenology, making a case for Patočka as a forerunner to what has become known as the theological turn in continental philosophy. Koci systematically examines his thoughts on the relationship between theology and philosophy, and his perennial struggle with the idea of crisis. For Patočka, modernity, metaphysics, and Christianity were all in different kinds of crises, and Koci demonstrates how his work responded to those crises creatively, providing new insights on theology understood as the task of thinking and living transcendence in a problematic world. It perceives the un-thought element of Christianity--what Patočka identified as its greatest resource and potential--not as a weakness, but as a credible way to ponder Christian faith and the Christian mode of existence after the proclaimed death of God and the end of metaphysics.