Dialectic and dialogue / Dmitri Nikulin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nikulin, D. V. (Dmitriĭ Vladimirovich)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectic.

Dialogue.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses and attain thinkable being, to Cusanus, to modern philosophers—Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher and Gadamer, for whom dialectic becomes the driving force behind the constitution of a rational philosophical system. Conceived as a logical enterprise, dialectic strives to liberate itself from dialogue, which it views as merely accidental and even disruptive of thought, in order to become a systematic or scientific method. The Cartesian autonomous and universal yet utterly monological and lonely subject requires dialectic alone to reason correctly, yet dialogue, despite its unfinalizable and interruptive nature, is what constitutes the human condition.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. In the Beginning: Dialogue and Dialectic in Plato

2. Dialectic: Via Antiqua

3. Dialectic: Via Moderna

4. Dialogue: A Systematic Outlook

5. Dialogue: Interruption

6. Against Writing

(Dialectical) Conclusion

Notes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804774734

0804774730

OCLC:

646788482