E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reference and Self-reference in Contemporary Thought
E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-0-231-51963-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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Thomas-Fogiel begins with postphilosophical claims such as scientism, which she reveals to be self-refuting, for they subsume philosophy into the branches of the natural sciences. She discovers similar issues in Rorty's skepticism and strands of continental thought. Revisiting the work of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century philosophers, when the split between analytical and continental philosophy began, Thomas-Fogiel finds both traditions followed the same paththe road of referencewhich ultimately led to self-contradiction. This phenomenon, whether valorized or condemned, has been understood as the death of philosophy. Tracing this pattern from Quine to Rorty, from Heidegger to Levinas and Habermas, Thomas-Fogiel reveals the self-contradiction at the core of their claims while also carving an alternative path through self-reference. Trained under the French philosopher Bernard Bourgeois, she remakes philosophy in exciting new ways for the twenty-first century.
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Acknowledgments
Translator's Note
Introduction
Part I. The End of Philosophy, or the Paradoxes of Speaking
1. Skeptical and Scientific "Post-philosophy"
2. "Saying and the Said": Two Paradigms for the Same Subject
3. The Antispeculative View: Habermas as an Example
4. Kant's Shadow in the Current Philosophical Landscape
Part II. Challenging the "Death of Philosophy": The Reflexive A Priori
5. A Definition of the Model: Scientific Learning and Philosophical Knowledge
6. The Model of Self-reference's Consistency
7. The Model's Fecundity
8. Beyond the Death of Philosophy
Part III. The End of Philosophy in Perspective: The Source of the Reflexive Deficit
9. The "Race to Reference"
10. The Tension Between Reference and Self-reference in the Kantian System
11. Helmholtz's Choice as a Choice for Reference: The Naturalization of Critique
12. Critique: A Positivist Theory of Knowledge or Existential Ontology?
13. Questioning the History of Philosophy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes