LoveKnowledge : the life of philosophy from Socrates to Derrida / Roy Brand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brand, Roy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Love.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Other Title:

Love knowledge

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.

New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet these thinkers all share a common method of practicing philosophy-not as a detached, intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art. What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. LoveKnowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Undoing Knowledge: Socrates of the Apology

2. The Logic of Desire: Socrates of the Symposium

3. Under a Certain Form of Eternity: Spinoza's Ethics

4. Communicating Solitude: Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker

5. How We Become What We Are: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals

6. Becoming Other: Foucault's History of Sexuality

7. Derrida's "Here I Am"

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed September 1, 2023)

ISBN:

9780231160452

0231160453

9780231530842

0231530846

OCLC:

818814874