America: The Troubled Continent of Thought - Couverture souple

Ronell, Avital

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1509560270 ISBN 13 : 9781509560271

Editeur : Polity Press, 2024

Synopsis

What position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the place from which a new relationship to thought originated, America incarnates a dark continent whose strangeness and singularity has driven thinkers outside of their own philosophical comfort zone - often forcing them to show anger, anxiety or desire towards what they considered a challenge or a threat.

This book provides a mapping of this complex relationship between America and philosophy through a series of examples drawn from a wide range of authors, from Freud and Heidegger to Adorno, Derrida and many others. It also examines the way American thinkers themselves have imported, used and abused philosophical views coming from Europe, often transforming them into something other than what they were. Is then philosophy an anti-American discourse, or America an anti-philosophical country? Or is it, rather, that America provokes philosophy from a place where its own history affirms the impossibilities, paradoxes and contradictions of philosophy itself?

At a time when the syntagm "America" has come to crystallize a certain understanding of the world order, interrogating the place that it occupies in our intellectual tradition is also a way to engage critically with the violence attached to it. "America" is a syntagm for violence, but this violence might very well be different than we thought.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Avital Ronell is University Professor of the Humanities at New York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1509560270
• ISBN 13: 9781509560271
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 154
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• Personne responsable: non disponible