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9780801868146

A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801868146

  • ISBN10:

    0801868149

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-09-27
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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Summary

In A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Delacampagne reviews the discipline's divergent and dramatic course and shows that its greatest figures, even the most unworldly among them, were deeply affected by events of their time. From Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose famous Tractatus was actually composed in the trenches during World War I, to Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger -- one who found himself barred from public life with Hitler's coming to power, the other a member of the Nazi party who later refused to repudiate German war crimes. From Bertrand Russell, whose lifelong pacifism led him to turn from logic and mathematics to social and moral questions, and Jean-Paul Sartre, who made philosophy an occasion for direct and personal political engagement, to Rudolf Carnap, a committed socialist, and Karl Popper, a resolute opponent of Communism. From the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School to the contemporary work of philosophers as variously minded as Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Hilary Putnam. The thinking of these philosophers, and scores of others, cannot be understood without being placed in the context of the times in which they lived.

Author Biography

Christian Delacampagne is a graduate of the +ëcole Normale Sup+¬rieure in Paris. He has served as director of the French Institutes in Barcelona, Cairo, Madrid, and Tel-Aviv and, more recently, as the cultural and scientific attach+¬ of the French Embassy in Boston. He presently teaches in the Department of French and Italian at Connecticut College, in New London.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English-Language Edition ix
Preface to the Original Edition xv
Introduction: The Birth of Modernity 1(11)
The Sure Path of Science
12(49)
Progress in Logic
12(7)
From Logic to Phenomenology
19(10)
From Logic to Politics
29(13)
Wittgenstein's Dissidence
42(19)
Philosophies of the End
61(67)
The End of Europe
61(14)
The End of Oppression
75(20)
The End of Metaphysics
95(18)
After the End
113(15)
Conceiving Auschwitz
128(51)
Paths of Exile
128(8)
Heidegger's Choice
136(21)
Preliminary Inquiries
157(12)
Investigation of the Case
169(10)
In the Cold War
179(46)
Partisans of Liberalism
179(9)
Defender of Liberty
188(17)
In Search of a Third Way
205(6)
Avatars of Marxism
211(14)
Reason in Question
225(52)
Structure versus Subject
225(16)
A History of Truth
241(13)
From Deconstruction to Neopragmatism
254(13)
Communication or Investigation?
267(10)
Epilogue: The Unfinished Cathedral 277(6)
Notes 283(20)
Select Bibliography 303(10)
Index 313

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