Questioning: A New History of Western Philosophy - Couverture souple

Baker, Gideon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474498078 ISBN 13 : 9781474498074

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Gideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. From Socrates to Judith Butler, he reveals the ancient in the modern and reflects on newer questions, like: is human being uniquely defined by questioning? And does the negativity of questioning lead to nihilistic despair? Staying faithful to his theme, Baker calls Western philosophy itself into question, asking why questioning should be seen as central to the true life. Is this not the same prejudice that led Socrates, at the beginning of Western philosophy, to ask whether the unexamined life is worth living? Far from being timeless, the questioning that lies at the heart of Western philosophy has a strange and unsettling history that concerns us all.

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À propos de l'auteur

Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. With a background in political philosophy, for many years his research has returned repeatedly to the question of nihilism, taking up the themes of political theology, messianism, the ancient Cynics and Nietzsche along the way. His most recent book is Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474498078
• ISBN 13: 9781474498074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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