A Dark History of Modern Philosophy - Couverture souple

Freydberg, Bernard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253029465 ISBN 13 : 9780253029461

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Delving beneath the principal discourses of philosophy from Descartes through Kant, Bernard Freydberg plumbs the previously concealed dark forces that ignite the inner power of modern thought. He contends that reason itself issues from an implicit and unconscious suppression of the nonrational. Even the modern philosophical concerns of nature and limits are undergirded by a dark side that dwells in them and makes them possible. Freydberg traces these dark sources to the poetry of Hesiod, the fragments of Heraclitus and Parmenides, and the Platonic dialogues and claims that they rear their heads again in the work of Spinoza, Schelling, and Nietzsche. Freydberg does not set forth a critique of modern philosophy but explores its intrinsic continuity with its ancient roots.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bernard Freydberg is Scholar in Residence at Duquesne University. He is author of Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (IUP, 2005) and Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros (IUP, 2008).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253029465
• ISBN 13: 9780253029461
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 154
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• Personne responsable: non disponible