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LoveKnowledge : The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida / Roy Brand.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231160445
  • 9780231530842
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 190 23
LOC classification:
  • BD431 .B7455 2013
  • BD431 .B7455 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Undoing Knowledge: Socrates of the Apology -- 2. The Logic of Desire: Socrates of the Symposium -- 3. Under a Certain Form of Eternity: Spinoza's Ethics -- 4. Communicating Solitude: Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker -- 5. How We Become What We Are: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals -- 6. Becoming Other: Foucault's History of Sexuality -- 7. Derrida's "Here I Am" -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet these thinkers all share a common method of practicing philosophy-not as a detached, intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art. What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. LoveKnowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Undoing Knowledge: Socrates of the Apology -- 2. The Logic of Desire: Socrates of the Symposium -- 3. Under a Certain Form of Eternity: Spinoza's Ethics -- 4. Communicating Solitude: Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker -- 5. How We Become What We Are: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals -- 6. Becoming Other: Foucault's History of Sexuality -- 7. Derrida's "Here I Am" -- Notes -- Index

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Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet these thinkers all share a common method of practicing philosophy-not as a detached, intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art. What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. LoveKnowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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