| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 290 pages) |
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Topics in historical philosophy |
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Northwestern University topics in historical philosophy.
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| Contents |
Machiavelli, historical repetition, and French philosophies of difference / Miguel Vatter -- Truth and evidence in Descartes and Levinas / Leslie MacAvoy -- Le Doeuff and Irigaray on Descartes / Anthony David -- Between Pascal and Spinoza : the vacuum / Pierre Macherey -- Potentia multitudinis, quae una veluti mente ducitur : Spinoza on the body politic / Etienne Balibar -- Spinoza and materialism / Susan James -- Deleuze's Spinoza : thinker of difference, or Deleuze against the Valley girls / Todd May -- Deleuze on Leibniz : difference, continuity, and the calculus / Daniel W. Smith -- On the function of the concept of origin : Althusser's reading of Locke / Warren Montag -- Locke and the event of appropriation : a Heideggerian reading of "Of property" / Robert Bernasconi -- From Kristeva to Deleuze : the encyclopedists and the philosophical imaginary / Katherine Arens -- Deleuze's Hume and creative history of philosophy / Jay Conway -- Althusser and Hume : a materialist encounter / Joel Reed -- Loving the impossible : Derrida, Rousseau, and the politics of perfectibility / Penelope Deutscher -- "What we cannot say" : Gadamer, Kant, and freedom / Dennis J. Schmidt -- The art of begetting monsters : the unnatural nuptials of Deleuze and Kant / Constantin Boundas |
| Summary |
For decades Continental theorists from Derrida to Deleuze have engaged in provocative, penetrating, and often extensive examinations of modern philosophers-studies that have opened up new ways to think about figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. This volume, for the first time, gives this work its due. A systematic rereading of early modern philosophers in the light of recent Continental philosophy, it exposes overlooked but critical aspects of sixteenth- through eighteenth-century philosophy even as it brings to light certain historical assumptions that have colored-and distorted-our understanding of modernist thought. This volume thus retrieves modern thinkers from the modernistic ways in which they have been portrayed since the nineteenth century; at the same time, it enhances our view of the roots and concerns of current Continental thought. What claims does the early modern period have on contemporary philosophy? How have recent theorists engaged this material, and why? In answer, some of these essays explore how major Continental theorists such as Derrida, Deleuze, Le Doeuff, Irigaray, Kristeva, and Althusser explicate the ideas of classical modern thinkers; others draw on recent Continental insights to examine the doctrines of modern philosophers beginning with Machiavelli and ending with Kant. Together they show how current Continental theory reinvigorates the study of the history of modern philosophers by transforming not only how we interpret their answers to certain questions, but also how we understand the very nature of these questions |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy, European.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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Philosophy, European
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Philosophy, Modern
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Daniel, Stephen H. (Stephen Hartley), 1950-
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| ISBN |
9780810161825 |
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0810161826 |
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0810122014 |
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9780810122017 |
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