Farewell to Matters of Principle Philosophical Studies

by Marquard, Odo; Wallace, Robert M.; Bernstein, Susan; Porter, James I.; Harari, Josue; Descombes, Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780195051148
• ISBN10: 0195051149
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-12-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is the latest addition to the Odéon series, a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature, criticism, philosophy, history and politics. An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen , the book offers a series of essays that present a philosophy of human morality critical of philosophical utopianism. Marquard, widely considered the heir of Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, describes his role as "skeptical philosopher" and discusses the 18th-century formation of such themes and disciplines as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, the nature of myth and attempts to account for it, and hermeneutics.

Table of Contents

Farewell to Matters of Principle (Another Autobiographical Introduction)	p. 3
Competence in Compensating for Incompetence? (On the Competence and Incompetence of Philosophy)	p. 22
Indicted and Unburdened Man in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy	p. 38
The End of Fate? (Some Observations on the Inevitability of Things Over Which We Have No Power of Disposition)	p. 64
In Praise of Polytheism (On Monomythical and Polymythical Thinking)	p. 87
The Question, To What Question Is Hermeneutics the Answer?	p. 111
Name Index	p. 141
Subject Index	p. 143
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