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Freud, The Reluctant Philosopher - Couverture souple

Tauber, Alfred I.

 
9780691145525: Freud, The Reluctant Philosopher
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691145520 ISBN 13 : 9780691145525
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant philosopher who failed to recognize his own metaphysical commitments, thereby crippling the defense of his theory and misrepresenting his true achievement. Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, Alfred Tauber argues that Freudianism still offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the enduring task of philosophy and many of the abiding ethical values of Western civilization.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alfred I. Tauber is professor of philosophy and the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine at Boston University, where he is also director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science. His books include Science and the Quest for Meaning, Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility, and Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691145520
ISBN 13 
9780691145525
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/books

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