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Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher / Alfred I. Tauber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691145525
  • 9781400836925
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.19/52092 22
LOC classification:
  • BF109.F74 T38 2010eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Psychoanalysis as Philosophy -- Chapter One. The Challenge (and Stigma) of Philosophy -- Chapter Two. Distinguishing Reasons and Causes -- Chapter Three. Storms over Königsberg -- Chapter Four. The Paradox of Freedom -- Chapter Five The Odd Triangle: Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud -- Chapter Six. Who Is the Subject? -- Chapter Seven. The Ethical Turn -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant philosopher who failed to recognize his own metaphysical commitments, thereby crippling the defense of his theory and misrepresenting his true achievement. Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, Alfred Tauber argues that Freudianism still offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the enduring task of philosophy and many of the abiding ethical values of Western civilization.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Psychoanalysis as Philosophy -- Chapter One. The Challenge (and Stigma) of Philosophy -- Chapter Two. Distinguishing Reasons and Causes -- Chapter Three. Storms over Königsberg -- Chapter Four. The Paradox of Freedom -- Chapter Five The Odd Triangle: Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud -- Chapter Six. Who Is the Subject? -- Chapter Seven. The Ethical Turn -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant philosopher who failed to recognize his own metaphysical commitments, thereby crippling the defense of his theory and misrepresenting his true achievement. Recasting Freud as an inspired humanist and reconceiving psychoanalysis as a form of moral inquiry, Alfred Tauber argues that Freudianism still offers a rich approach to self-inquiry, one that reaffirms the enduring task of philosophy and many of the abiding ethical values of Western civilization.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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