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Author Ferrell, Robyn, 1960-

Title Genres of philosophy / Robyn Ferrell
Published Aldershot, England : Ashgate, [2002]
©2002

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Description xi, 144 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 1 Genres of Philosophy -- 2 Love and Writing -- 3 The Theatre of Human Nature -- 4 Faith in Hume -- 5 The Pathology of Reason -- 6 Thus Spake Nietzsche -- 7 The Truth in Heidegger -- 8 Philosophy Without History -- 9 Why Bother? -- 10 What is Philosophy?
Summary "Philosophy is textual - it is written and it is read -yet much of philosophy regards itself as a kind of science, sometimes reducing itself to a species of intellectual bureaucracy. This book explores genres through the history of philosophy, providing new ways of thinking about philosophical writing." "Exploring a wide range of both European and Analytic philosophers and their works - including Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Deleuze, Wittgenstein, Derrida and Rorty - Genres of Philosophy explores the reading and writing of philosophers who themselves read and write, revealing the textual relation to the history of philosophy. Presenting fresh readings of classic texts in aesthetics, and offering an original approach to the question of philosophical writing, this unique analysis will prove of particular interest to readers in European philosophy, the history of philosophy, aesthetics, and literary studies."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-137) and index
Subject Philosophy -- Authorship.
Methodology -- History.
Philosophy -- History.
LC no. 2001046031
ISBN 9780754604211 hardback
0754604217 hardback