Early twentieth-century Continental philosophy / Leonard Lawlor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawlor, Leonard, 1954-

Series:

Studies in Continental thought.

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continental philosophy--History--20th century.

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy elaborates the basic project of contemporary continental philosophy, which culminates in a movement toward the outside. Leonard Lawlor interprets key texts by major figures in the continental tradition, including Bergson, Foucault, Freud, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, to develop the broad sweep of the aims of continental philosophy. Lawlor discusses major theoretical trends in the work of these philosophers-immanence, difference, multiplicity, and the overcoming of metaphysics. His conception of continental philosophy as a unified proj

Contents:

Introduction: structure and genesis of early twentieth-century Continental philosophy

Thinking beyond Platonism: Bergson's "Introduction to metaphysics" (1903)

Schizophrenic thought: Freud's "The unconscious" (1915)

Consciousness as distance: Husserl's "Phenomenology" (the 1929 Encyclopedia Britannica entry)

The thought of the nothing: Heidegger's "What is metaphysics?" (1929)

Dwelling in the speaking of language: Heidegger's "Language" (1950)

Dwelling in the texture of the visible: Merleau-Ponty's "Eye and mind" (1961)

Enveloped in a nameless voice: Foucault's "The thought of the outside" (1966)

Conclusion: further questions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613626417

9781280596582

1280596589

9780253005168

0253005167

OCLC:

769266003