UID:
almahu_9949678087702882
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781350337046
Content:
Radicality is at the very heart of philosophy. Sustaining this lifeblood of progressive thinking means refashioning philosophy constantly. It means engaging with the fundamental issues of living, working, thinking and dying. Otherwise, philosophy loses touch with what matters and dies away itself. This book presents five very different ways philosophy can stay radically engaged: by taking its stand on reason (like Descartes), experience (like Locke), action (like Marx), analysis (like Adorno) or self-criticism (like Heidegger). The result is a much-needed guide for philosophers of all levels of experience, helping to identify the best ways to be, and continue to be, radical. These five ways of being radical are united by their extraordinarily audacious approach to seeking out the roots of things and in engaging in issues that matter to everyone. What can we know for certain? What is our nature? What do we need to live a genuinely human existence? As the book proceeds, another more disturbing connection stands out: each path starts by identifying something disastrously wrong with previous ways of doing philosophy, and thus heads out in a completely different direction, but each ends up in the very same confusion that it tried to escape. Maximilian de Gaynesford explores this paradox: philosophy must be radical to be relevant and connected, but radicalism threatens to undermine philosophy, critically engaging with positions and arguments on both sides. The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey, straightens out the labyrinths of modern philosophy and sheds light on this Covid / post-Trump age, where the stimulus to philosophize remains more alive and active than ever..
Note:
Introduction Part I: Reason 1. How We Might Enter Philosophy 2. How We Are Part II: Experience 3. How We Know Part III: Action 4. How We Live and Work 5. How We Might Live and Work Part IV: Analysis 6. How We Get By Part V: Self-Criticism 7. How We Might Re-Enter Philosophy 8. How We Face Life 9. How We Face Death Concluding Hopes Bibliography Index.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350337046
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350337046?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
