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Highroad Around Modernism

Neville Robert Cummings
Heftet / 1992 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780791411520
Publisert
1992-09-01
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Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
481 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
339

Forfatter
Neville Robert Cummings

Om bidragsyterne

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Dean of the School of Theology at Boston University. He is the author of Reconstruction of Thinking; Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature; New Essays in Metaphysics; The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection; The Tao and the Daimon; Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; God the Creator: On the Transcendence and the Presence of God; and A Theology Primer, all published by SUNY Press.

Highroad Around Modernism

Neville Robert Cummings
Heftet / 1992 / Engelsk
Neville Robert Cummings
Heftet / 1992 / Engelsk
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<p>"Robert Neville's book is most welcome and most timely. It introduces a neglected but important voice to the debate on postmodernism — the voice of 'speculative pragmatism.' Neville shows convincingly that certain distinctively non-modernist forms of philosophy — from Peirce and Whitehead to Weiss and his own writing — do not fall under the scythe of postmodernist critique. Having never been modernist, they cannot rightly be rejected or dismissed in the company of views which they had themselves effectively criticized. In arguing for an extended (and renewed) hearing for a vital strand of philosophical thought, the author offers telling judgments of contemporary philosophers such as Derrida and Rorty — and behind them, Heidegger and Nietzsche. A forceful and engaging book." — Edward S. Casey</p><p>"I think this is in all respects an exceptionally good book. Few authors are able to use tradition originally as has been done here. Moreover, the book has the potential to mark an important historical turn in late twentieth century thinking." — Douglas R. Anderson</p><p>"It's hard to put down! Neville's style is elegant; his gentle wit interposes a chuckle in the midst of metaphysical profundities; his command of the philosophical, historical, and political literature is amazing and adds an unexpected richness to the text. The quagmire of post-modernism has reduced twenty-three centuries of Western metaphysical thought to the level of the silly. Others have attempted a rescue, but none so brilliantly as Neville." — Elizabeth M. Kraus</p>

Discussions of modernism and postmodernism in philosophy and the arts are usually based on a narrow reading of the Western tradition and are not conscious of the narrowness. The modern period, beginning with the European Renaissance, spawned many developments, not just the modernist one in terms of which the tradition has been read. From the standpoint of the highroad around modernism, both modernism and post-modernism look like nothing more than two late modern movements, perhaps too preoccupied with themselves and their historical place to engage a swiftly changing world containing more than the Western tradition. The Highroad Around Modernism develops and defends an explicitly non-modernist and non-postmodernist extension of modernity applicable to the problems of world-wide cultural interactions.
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Preface Introduction: Why Speculative Philosophy Should Not Shut Down I. The Postmodernist Debate II. Modernity and Modernism III. The End of Philosophy IV. Ways around Modernism PART ONE: PHILOSOPHY AROUND MODERNISM One. Charles S. Peirce as a Non-Modernist Thinker I. Peirce's Rejection of Foundations: Hypothesis, Habits, and Signs II. Reality: Generality and the Habits of Nature III. Speculative Metaphysics IV. Religion Peircean Postscript: Postmodernism Again Two. Alfred North Whitehead and Romanticism I. Nature: Mechanism and Freedom II. Modernism and Fragmentation III. Modernism: A Non-Postmodernist Critique IV. System's Way around Modernism Three. Metaphysics in the Twentieth Century I. Whitehead and the Basic Ideas II. Weiss and the Problematic of Metaphysics III. Metaphysics as Philosophy IV. The American Highroad of Metaphysics Four. Contributions and Limits of Process Philosophy I. Speculative Philosophy and the Ontological Question II. Whitehead's Model of Nature III. Enduring Personal Identity and the Texture of Life IV. Value Five. Hegel and Whitehead on Totality I. Hegel: Finite and Infinite II. Negative Dialectic: The Trick of the Modernist and Postmodernist III. Whitehead: Totality in Experience IV. World and System Six. On Systems as Speculative Hypotheses I. Philosophy as System II. System as Fallible III. System as Tolerant IV. System as Engaged Seven. Reflections on American Philosophy I. Emerson on the Range of American Philosophic Practice II. Nature, Books, and Action III. American Philosophy as World Philsophy IV. A Role for the Professional Philosopher PART TWO: POLITICS AROUND MODERNISM Eight. Power, Revolution, and Religion I. Power and Narrative II. The End of Narrative and Power III. The Road of Covenant Theology IV. Covenant as Revolution Nine. Beyond Capitalist and Class Analysis I. The Need for New Theory in the Social Sciences II. Liberal Capitalism and Marxism: Rejection of Market and Class III. Metaphysics of Social Analysis IV. On the Structure of Social Theory Ten. Freedom, Tolerance, and the Puritan Ethic I. The Principle of Universal Public Responsibility II. Puritan Commitment III. Tolerance IV. Freedom Eleven. Leadership, Responsibility, and Value I. Value II. Courage III. Leadership IV. A Confession, a Caveat, and a Homily Twelve. Technology and the Richness of the World I. Natural Richness Denied II. Infinite Denisty: An Ontological Vision III. Infinite Density: A Cosmological Vision IV. Richness as the Infinite in the Finite Notes Bibliography Index
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<p>"Robert Neville's book is most welcome and most timely. It introduces a neglected but important voice to the debate on postmodernism — the voice of 'speculative pragmatism.' Neville shows convincingly that certain distinctively non-modernist forms of philosophy — from Peirce and Whitehead to Weiss and his own writing — do not fall under the scythe of postmodernist critique. Having never been modernist, they cannot rightly be rejected or dismissed in the company of views which they had themselves effectively criticized. In arguing for an extended (and renewed) hearing for a vital strand of philosophical thought, the author offers telling judgments of contemporary philosophers such as Derrida and Rorty — and behind them, Heidegger and Nietzsche. A forceful and engaging book." — Edward S. Casey</p><p>"I think this is in all respects an exceptionally good book. Few authors are able to use tradition originally as has been done here. Moreover, the book has the potential to mark an important historical turn in late twentieth century thinking." — Douglas R. Anderson</p><p>"It's hard to put down! Neville's style is elegant; his gentle wit interposes a chuckle in the midst of metaphysical profundities; his command of the philosophical, historical, and political literature is amazing and adds an unexpected richness to the text. The quagmire of post-modernism has reduced twenty-three centuries of Western metaphysical thought to the level of the silly. Others have attempted a rescue, but none so brilliantly as Neville." — Elizabeth M. Kraus</p>

Discussions of modernism and postmodernism in philosophy and the arts are usually based on a narrow reading of the Western tradition and are not conscious of the narrowness. The modern period, beginning with the European Renaissance, spawned many developments, not just the modernist one in terms of which the tradition has been read. From the standpoint of the highroad around modernism, both modernism and post-modernism look like nothing more than two late modern movements, perhaps too preoccupied with themselves and their historical place to engage a swiftly changing world containing more than the Western tradition. The Highroad Around Modernism develops and defends an explicitly non-modernist and non-postmodernist extension of modernity applicable to the problems of world-wide cultural interactions.
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Preface Introduction: Why Speculative Philosophy Should Not Shut Down I. The Postmodernist Debate II. Modernity and Modernism III. The End of Philosophy IV. Ways around Modernism PART ONE: PHILOSOPHY AROUND MODERNISM One. Charles S. Peirce as a Non-Modernist Thinker I. Peirce's Rejection of Foundations: Hypothesis, Habits, and Signs II. Reality: Generality and the Habits of Nature III. Speculative Metaphysics IV. Religion Peircean Postscript: Postmodernism Again Two. Alfred North Whitehead and Romanticism I. Nature: Mechanism and Freedom II. Modernism and Fragmentation III. Modernism: A Non-Postmodernist Critique IV. System's Way around Modernism Three. Metaphysics in the Twentieth Century I. Whitehead and the Basic Ideas II. Weiss and the Problematic of Metaphysics III. Metaphysics as Philosophy IV. The American Highroad of Metaphysics Four. Contributions and Limits of Process Philosophy I. Speculative Philosophy and the Ontological Question II. Whitehead's Model of Nature III. Enduring Personal Identity and the Texture of Life IV. Value Five. Hegel and Whitehead on Totality I. Hegel: Finite and Infinite II. Negative Dialectic: The Trick of the Modernist and Postmodernist III. Whitehead: Totality in Experience IV. World and System Six. On Systems as Speculative Hypotheses I. Philosophy as System II. System as Fallible III. System as Tolerant IV. System as Engaged Seven. Reflections on American Philosophy I. Emerson on the Range of American Philosophic Practice II. Nature, Books, and Action III. American Philosophy as World Philsophy IV. A Role for the Professional Philosopher PART TWO: POLITICS AROUND MODERNISM Eight. Power, Revolution, and Religion I. Power and Narrative II. The End of Narrative and Power III. The Road of Covenant Theology IV. Covenant as Revolution Nine. Beyond Capitalist and Class Analysis I. The Need for New Theory in the Social Sciences II. Liberal Capitalism and Marxism: Rejection of Market and Class III. Metaphysics of Social Analysis IV. On the Structure of Social Theory Ten. Freedom, Tolerance, and the Puritan Ethic I. The Principle of Universal Public Responsibility II. Puritan Commitment III. Tolerance IV. Freedom Eleven. Leadership, Responsibility, and Value I. Value II. Courage III. Leadership IV. A Confession, a Caveat, and a Homily Twelve. Technology and the Richness of the World I. Natural Richness Denied II. Infinite Denisty: An Ontological Vision III. Infinite Density: A Cosmological Vision IV. Richness as the Infinite in the Finite Notes Bibliography Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780791411520
Publisert
1992-09-01
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
481 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
339

Forfatter
Neville Robert Cummings

Om bidragsyterne

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and Dean of the School of Theology at Boston University. He is the author of Reconstruction of Thinking; Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature; New Essays in Metaphysics; The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection; The Tao and the Daimon; Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; God the Creator: On the Transcendence and the Presence of God; and A Theology Primer, all published by SUNY Press.

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