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Autobiography of Philosophy Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

Davis, Michael
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780847692279
Publisert
1998-12-23
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vekt
381 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Forfatter
Davis, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Davis is professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent works include The Politics of Philosophy: A Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

Autobiography of Philosophy Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

Davis, Michael
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk
Davis, Michael
Heftet / 1998 / Engelsk
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<...considers the character and role of philosophy, or of philosophizing, <...comprises a series of chapters on Rousseau's Reveries, devoting one to each of the 'Walks' in that work in turn, assessing and extending their themes and ideas and bringing forward the interpretation of their underlying significance....

- Nicholas Dent, University of Birmingham,

This book is both far reaching and tightly focused.

Review of Metaphysics

Davis does an excellent job of teasing out several interrelated tensions in the <i>Reveries</i> . . . careful and illuminating. . . . Displays an excellent philosophical sensitivity to particular texts.

- Rebecca Kukla, Carleton University, Philosophy in Review

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<...considers the character and role of philosophy, or of philosophizing, <...comprises a series of chapters on Rousseau's <i>Reveries</i>, devoting one to each of the 'Walks' in that work in turn, assessing and extending their themes and ideas and bringing forward the interpretation of their underlying significance.

- Nicholas Dent, University of Birmingham,

This is the most important book about the nature of philosophy and of the human soul published this year. In making the condition for its own possibility its deepest concern, philosophy is necessarily about itself—it is autobiographical. The first part of The Autobiography of Philosophy interprets Heidegger's Being and Time, Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, Aristotle's Metaphysics, and Plato's Lysis as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. The second part is a reading of Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Although Rousseau's explicitly autobiographical writings are more often read for the tantalizing details of his rather eccentric life than for their philosophical import, this work is an artful use of Rousseau's exile and isolation—"the strangest position in which a mortal could ever find himself"—as a paradigm for the human soul in its relation to the world. In powerfully articulating the activity that is at the core of all philosophy, The Reveries articulates the nature of the human soul for which this activity is the defining possibility.
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An interpretation of Heidegger's "Being and Time", Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals", Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and Plato's "Lysis" as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. It goes on to provide a reading of Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker".
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Chapter 1 Philosophy as Autobiography
Part 2 Part One: The Question of Philosophy
Chapter 3 Phenomenology and Philosophy: The Good of Being
Chapter 4 Nietzsche's Genealogy and Philosophy: The Being of the Good
Chapter 5 Philosophy and Wisdom: The Question of Being in Aristotle's MetaphysicsA
Chapter 6 Philosophy and Friendship: The Question of the Good in Plato's Lysis
Chapter 7 Parabasis
Part 8 Part Two: Rousseau's Life
Chapter 9 Solitude and Society
Chapter 10 The Fall
Chapter 11 The True Morality
Chapter 12 The Goodness of Truth
Chapter 13 The Island of the Blessed
Chapter 14 Authority
Chapter 15 Beauty
Chapter 16 The End of Suffering
Chapter 17 Them
Chapter 18 The Soul
Chapter 19 Index

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<...considers the character and role of philosophy, or of philosophizing, <...comprises a series of chapters on Rousseau's Reveries, devoting one to each of the 'Walks' in that work in turn, assessing and extending their themes and ideas and bringing forward the interpretation of their underlying significance....

- Nicholas Dent, University of Birmingham,

This book is both far reaching and tightly focused.

Review of Metaphysics

Davis does an excellent job of teasing out several interrelated tensions in the <i>Reveries</i> . . . careful and illuminating. . . . Displays an excellent philosophical sensitivity to particular texts.

- Rebecca Kukla, Carleton University, Philosophy in Review

Se alle

<...considers the character and role of philosophy, or of philosophizing, <...comprises a series of chapters on Rousseau's <i>Reveries</i>, devoting one to each of the 'Walks' in that work in turn, assessing and extending their themes and ideas and bringing forward the interpretation of their underlying significance.

- Nicholas Dent, University of Birmingham,

This is the most important book about the nature of philosophy and of the human soul published this year. In making the condition for its own possibility its deepest concern, philosophy is necessarily about itself—it is autobiographical. The first part of The Autobiography of Philosophy interprets Heidegger's Being and Time, Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals, Aristotle's Metaphysics, and Plato's Lysis as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. The second part is a reading of Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Although Rousseau's explicitly autobiographical writings are more often read for the tantalizing details of his rather eccentric life than for their philosophical import, this work is an artful use of Rousseau's exile and isolation—"the strangest position in which a mortal could ever find himself"—as a paradigm for the human soul in its relation to the world. In powerfully articulating the activity that is at the core of all philosophy, The Reveries articulates the nature of the human soul for which this activity is the defining possibility.
Les mer
An interpretation of Heidegger's "Being and Time", Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals", Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and Plato's "Lysis" as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. It goes on to provide a reading of Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker".
Les mer

Chapter 1 Philosophy as Autobiography
Part 2 Part One: The Question of Philosophy
Chapter 3 Phenomenology and Philosophy: The Good of Being
Chapter 4 Nietzsche's Genealogy and Philosophy: The Being of the Good
Chapter 5 Philosophy and Wisdom: The Question of Being in Aristotle's MetaphysicsA
Chapter 6 Philosophy and Friendship: The Question of the Good in Plato's Lysis
Chapter 7 Parabasis
Part 8 Part Two: Rousseau's Life
Chapter 9 Solitude and Society
Chapter 10 The Fall
Chapter 11 The True Morality
Chapter 12 The Goodness of Truth
Chapter 13 The Island of the Blessed
Chapter 14 Authority
Chapter 15 Beauty
Chapter 16 The End of Suffering
Chapter 17 Them
Chapter 18 The Soul
Chapter 19 Index

Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780847692279
Publisert
1998-12-23
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Vekt
381 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
296

Forfatter
Davis, Michael

Om bidragsyterne

Michael Davis is professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent works include The Politics of Philosophy: A Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

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