Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 186 pages)
ISBN:
9781350050013
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9781350050006
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9781350049994
Content:
"Erin Plunkett draws from both analytic and continental sources to argue for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that the essay form is uniquely suited to address the sceptical problem. The authors examined here - Montaigne, Hume, the early German Romantics, Kierkegaard and Stanley Cavell - bring into relief the relationship between scepticism and ordinary life and situate the will to know within a broader frame of meaningful human activity. The formal features of the essay call attention to time, subjectivity, and language as the existential conditions of knowledge. In contrast to foundationalist approaches, which expect philosophy to reach empirical or rational certainty, Plunkett demonstrates through these writings the philosophical advantages of a fragmentary, non-dogmatic style of writing. A Philosophy of the Essay shows how this medium can help us come to terms with the contingency and uncertainty of life."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350049987
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Plunkett, Erin A philosophy of the essay London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ISBN 9781350049987
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Essay
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Philosophie
;
Stilistik
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350050013
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350050013
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