The science, politics, and ontology of life-philosophy / edited by Scott M. Campbell and Paul W. Bruno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Scott M. (Scott McElroy), editor of compilation.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in philosophy.

Bloomsbury studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life-philosophy, central to 19th-century philosophical thought, is concerned with the meaning, value and purpose of life. This much-needed study returns to the central philosophical questions of Lebensphilosophie and reveals the ascendency of 'life' in contemporary philosophical thinking. Scholars from the disciplines of political theory, aesthetics, bioethics and ontology examine how the notion of life has made its way into contemporary philosophical discussions. They explore three main themes: the shift toward biological and technological views of life; the political implications of our conceptions of life; and the re-emergence of the idea of life in recent philosophical discussions about, for example, care of the self, scepticism, tragedy, desire, the emotions, and history. Anticipating new directions of philosophical thinking, this study restores a vital school of thought to crucial considerations about the dangers of contemporary politics and the threat of new technologies

Contents:

Notes of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Editors' Introduction Scott M. Campbell and Paul W. Bruno

Part I: Life-Contexts in Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Bergson

1. Dilthey as a Philosopher of Life Rudolf A. Makkreel

2. Biological and Historical Life: Heidegger between Levinas and Dilthey Eric Nelson

3. Your Money or Your Life: Using Nietzsche's Critique of Mechanism and Platonism to Defend the Biosphere Ronnie Hawkins

4. The Comprehensive Meaning of Life in Bergson Florence Caeymaex

Part II: Converging Technologies

5. Information, Self-Reference, and the Magical Realism of "Life" H. Peter Steeves

6. The Artificialization of Life: Designing Self-Organization Jean-Pierre Dupuy

7. eLife: From Biology to Technology and Back Again Jos de Mul

8. Philosophy of Life in the Age of Information: Seinsgeschichte and the Task of "An Ontology of Ourselves" Charles Bonner

Part III: Life, Power, Politics

9. "Without Inside or Outside": Nietzsche, Pluralism and the Problem of the Unity of Experience Michael J. O'Neill

10. Anachronism and Powerlessness: An Essay on Postmodernism Leonard Lawlor

11. Taking Hold of Life: Liberal Eugenics, Autonomy, and Biopower Serena Parekh

Part IV: Philosophies of Life

12. The Care of the Self and The Gift of Death: Foucault and Derrida on Learning How to Live Edward McGushin

13. The Tragic Sense of Life in Heidegger's Readings of Antigone Scott M. Campbell

14. Living the Pyrrhonian Way Stephen Clark

15. Intuition as the Business of Philosophy: Wittgenstein and Philosophy's Turn to Life Neil Turnbull

16. On Life and Desire: Kant, Lewontin, and Girard Paul Bruno

17. The Wisdom of Emotions Jason Howard

18. History in the Service of Life: Nietzsche's Genealogy Allison Merrick

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472545961

1472545966

9781441112989

1441112987

9781441127334

144112733X

OCLC:

843202772