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Auteur(s) : Geuss, Raymond (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Changing the subject [Texte imprimé] : philosophy from Socrates to Adorno / Raymond Geuss
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxiii- 334 p.) ; 22 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
Ask a question and it is reasonable to expect an answer or a confession of ignorance.
But a philosopher may defy expectations. Confronted by a standard question arising
from a normal way of viewing the world, a philosopher may reply that the question
is misguided, that to continue asking it is, at the extreme, to get trapped in a delusive
hall of mirrors. According to Raymond Geuss, this attempt to bypass or undercut conventional
ways of thinking, to escape from the hall of mirrors, represents philosophy at its
best and most characteristic. To illustrate, Geuss explores the ideas of twelve philosophers
who broke dramatically with prevailing wisdom, from Socrates and Plato in the ancient
world to Wittgenstein and Adorno in our own. The result is a striking account of some
of the most innovative and important philosophers in Western history and an indirect
manifesto for how to pursue philosophy today. Geuss cautions that philosophers' attempts
to break from convention do not necessarily make the world a better place. Montaigne's
ideas may have been benign, but the fate of the views developed by, for instance,
Augustine, Hobbes, and Nietzsche has been more varied. But in the act of provoking
people to think differently, philosophers make clear that we are not fated to live
within the often stifling systems of thought that we inherit. We can change the subject.
A work of exceptional range, power, and originality, Changing the Subject manifests
the precise virtues of philosophy that it identifies and defends.
Sujet(s) : Philosophie -- Histoire
Raisonnement
Questionnement
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674545724. - ISBN 0674545729
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Table des matières : Introduction: A game of chess in times of plague -- ; Socrates -- ; Plato -- ; Lucretius
-- ; Augustine -- ; Montaigne -- ; Hobbes -- ; Hegel -- ; Nietzsche -- ; Lukacs --
; Heidegger -- ; Wittgenstein -- ; Adorno -- ; Conclusion: The end and the future.