Philosophy in this century has often self-consciously presented itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of the philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such. The basis for such self-description may well be a deep-seated anxiety about death; but whatever its grounds, the procession of distinguished intellectuals who seem mostly concerned with who gets to turn off the light on philosophy on his/her way out is one main reason why philosophy seems to have lost its grip on public opinion and public policy. Which is ironical, because there is often considerable constructive work going on under the pretence of all this `destruction', but the superficial rhetoric has more currency and impact than the substance of that work. This book brings back the spirit of bold, imaginative, even outrageous theorizing into philosophy, and contains a series of examples of it, venturing playfully into quantum mechanics and political theory, psychoanalysis and environmental ethics, philosophy of language and sociology, without any attempt at `systematically exhausting' these disparate fields but rather using them as suggestive excuses and arenas for the display of intellectual creativity. There are numerous echoes among the various pieces, and between them and other works by the same author; but again these resonances are not systematized. The result is more to be seen as a collection of snapshots of an intellectual landscape than as a hierarchical regimentation of it.
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2012

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Bencivenga, Ermanno

Springer Science + Business Media BV

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Springer Nature, Dordrecht, 2012

Topoi library, Dordrecht, ©2001

1. ed. 2001, Dordrecht, 2001

Netherlands, Netherlands

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Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Knowledge Versus Belief....Pages 7-15
A Strange (?) Quantum World....Pages 17-23
Promissory Names....Pages 25-30
What is Logic About?....Pages 31-42
Dialectical Logic at Work in the Elective Affinities What We Can Learn From Goethe About Hegel....Pages 43-56
Discriminating from Within....Pages 57-62
The Poetics of (Philosophical) Interpretation....Pages 63-74
Kant’s Sadism....Pages 75-81
Respect for Structure....Pages 83-87
The End of Analysis....Pages 89-95
Being-Idle....Pages 97-100
Taking Care of Ethical relativism....Pages 101-107
Montaigne’s Pre-And Post-Modern Notion of Subjectivity....Pages 109-119
An Oblique View....Pages 121-123
Beyond Tolerance?....Pages 125-136
An Answer to the Question “Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future?”....Pages 137-147
Machiavelli, for Example....Pages 149-165
The Degradation of Talent....Pages 167-169
Philosophy and Literature in Calvino’s Tales....Pages 171-185
“I”: J.D....Pages 187-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-212

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