Speculative philosophy / Donald Phillip Verene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verene, Donald Phillip, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this illuminating volume, Donald Phillip Verene challenges philosophy to pass beyond the limits of criticism and reflection toward a form of speculative philosophy that express the Hegelian sense in which the True is the whole and the Socratic sense in which the aim of philosophy is self-knowledge.

Contents:

Introduction: On philosophical tetralogy

The canon of the primal scene in speculative philosophy

Philosophical pragmatics

Putting philosophical questions (in)to language

Absolute knowledge and philosophical language

The limits of argument : argument and autobiography

Philosophical aesthetics

Philosophical memory

Culture, categories, and the imagination

Metaphysical narration, science, and symbolic form

Myth and metaphysics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-143) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-49467-8

9786612494673

0-7391-3661-5

OCLC:

436279073