Time and philosophy : a history of continental thought / John McCumber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCumber, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continental philosophy.

Time--Philosophy.

Time.

Physical Description:

ix, 414 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Since Kant, the past two centuries of continental philosophy have produced an extraordinary range of ways of thinking about the world and the self. However, this diversity of thought - and the often complex way in which it is expressed - has worked to obscure a sense of common interests and a coherent history.

In Time and Philosophy, John McCumber presents a detailed survey of continental thought through an historical account of its key texts. The common theme taken up in each text is how philosophical thought should respond to time. Looking at the development of continental philosophy in both Europe and America, McCumber discusses important philosophers such as Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno and Horkheimer, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Foucault, and Derrida as well as some of the most influential thinkers of today - Agamben, Badiou, Butler, and Rancière.

Throughout the work McCumber elucidates primary texts for readers coming to them for the first time, while revealing the philosophical rigour that underpins and connects the history of continental thought. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Germany, 1790-1890

1 The collapse of Kant 15

2 Hegel discovers the past 31

3 Marx, capitalism and the future 57

4 Kierkegaard's dreadful future 77

5 Nietzsche and the boundless future 97

II Germany and America, 1900-1968

6 The return of traditional philosophy: Edmund Husserl 127

7 The finite future: Martin Heidegger 159

8 Activity and mortality: Hannah Arendt 201

9 The twilight of Enlightenment: Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer 225

III France, 1945-2004

10 The future and freedom: Jean-Paul Sartre 253

11 The future and the disclosure of being: Simone de Beauvoir 287

12 The future as rupture: Michel Foucault 313

13 The future and hope: Jacques Derrida 331

IV Onwards, 2011-

14 Badiou, Rancière, and the time of equality 351

15 Life and gender in Agamben and Butler 373.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773539426

0773539425

9780773539433

0773539433

OCLC:

718181771