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9780804781435

On Philosophy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804781435

  • ISBN10:

    0804781435

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2013-01-09
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

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Summary

Deepening divisions separate today's philosophers, first, from the culture at large; then, from each other; and finally, from philosophy itself. Though these divisions tend to coalesce publicly as debates over the Enlightenment, their roots lie much deeper. Overcoming them thus requires a confrontation with the whole of Western philosophy. Only when we uncover the strange heritage of Aristotle's metaphysics, as reworked, for example, by Descartes and Kant, can we understand contemporary philosophy's inability to dialogue with women, people of color, LGBTs, and other minority groups. Only when we have understood that inability can we see how the thought of Hegel and Heidegger contains the seeds of a remedy. And only when armed with such a remedy can philosophy rise to the challenges posed by thinkers such as David Foster Wallace and Abraham Lincoln. The book's interpretations of these figures and others past and present are as scrupulous as its conclusions will be controversial. The result contributes to the most important question confronting us today: does reason itself have a future?

Author Biography

John McCumber is Professor of Germanic Languages at UCLA. Among his recent book are Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era (2001), Reshaping Reason: Toward a New Philosophy (2005), and Time and Philosophy: A History of Continental Thought (2011).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Abbreviationsp. xi
Introductionp. 1
From Scientific Revolutions to Boston AA: Philosophy and the Speaking of Matterp. 22
What Is the History of Philosophy?p. 47
Matter, Form, and Oppression in Aristotlep. 76
Modernism in Philosophy: Fulfillment and Subversion in Kantp. 97
The Malleability of Reason: Hegel and the Return to Heracleitusp. 125
The Fragility of Reason: Earth, Art, and Politics in Heideggerp. 153
Dialectics, Thermodynamics, and the End of Critiquep. 177
Critical Practice and Public Language: The Role of Philosophyp. 202
Epiloguep. 227
Notesp. 235
Referencesp. 249
Indexp. 263
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