Judgement and sense in modern French philosophy a new reading of six thinkers Henry Somers-Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Somers-Hall, Henry, author.

Series:

Modern European philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 2022

Summary:

"This book addresses the question of what unifies the French philosophical tradition across the twentieth century by exploring these two questions. Kant claimed that the structure of experience mirrored the categories of thought because the cognitive faculties of the subject played a constitutive role in structuring experience. As such, the structure of thought for Kant is fundamentally tied to the nature of metaphysics. In developing his account of what thinking entailed, Kant took judgement, the attribution of a predicate to a subject, to be the paradigm act of thinking. Throughout the nineteenth century, efforts to move beyond Kant's model of thinking as judgement centred on the attempt to augment that model. For instance, Hegel saw Kant's account of judgement as an essentially fixed form of the true nature of thinking, and therefore developed a more processual account of thinking. His account still ultimately operates by putting judgement into motion, however, rather than rejecting the model of thinking as judgement itself. Conversely, philosophers such as Schelling who do not understand thinking solely in terms of judging often retreat into an indeterminate mysticism, thus retaining the idea that anything positive that can be said about thought must take judgement as a model"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I.1 Outline

Chapter 1 Judgement and the German Idealists

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Kant's Conception of Judgement

1.3 The Aims of Kant's Project

1.4 Functions and Categories

1.5 The Metaphysical Deduction

1.6 The Transcendental Deduction

1.7 The Resolution of Kant's Dilemma

1.8 Absolute Idealism

1.9 Hölderlin: Judgement and Constitution

1.10 Schelling and the Question of the Absolute

1.11 Schelling's Absolute Idealism

1.12 Hegel and Infinite Thought

1.13 The Jena Logic

1.14 Conclusion

Chapter 2 Bergson and Thinking as Dissociation

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Counting

2.3 Spatial Multiplicities

2.4 Melody and Confused Multiplicities

2.5 The Logic of Multiplicities

2.6 Judgement and Multiplicity

2.7 Duration and Infinite Thought

2.8 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Sartre and Thinking as Imaging

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Immanent Thought

3.3 Critique of Bergson

3.4 Intentionality

3.5 Sartre's Account of the Imagination

3.6 Consciousness and the World

3.7 The Constitution of a Situation in Being and Nothingness

3.8 Being with Others

3.9 Conclusion

Chapter 4 Merleau-Ponty and the Indeterminacy of Perception

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Empiricism, Intellectualism, and Transcendental Realism

4.3 Kant and Merleau-Ponty on Symmetrical Objects

4.4 The Phenomenal Field

4.5 Up and Down

4.6 Depth

4.7 Merleau-Ponty's Critique of the Transcendental Deduction

4.8 The Unreflected Image of the World

4.9 The Constitution of Experience

4.10 Kant's Mischaracterisation of Experience

4.11 Conclusion

Chapter 5 Derrida and Différance

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Plato

5.3 Hegel

5.4 Husserl

5.5 Différance

5.6 Conclusion

Chapter 6 Foucault, Power, and the Juridico-Discursive

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Foucault's Relationship to Kant

6.3 Sense in Foucault

6.4 The Three Epistemes

6.5 The Statement in The Archaeology of Knowledge

6.6 The Status of Archaeology

6.7 Foucault and Power

6.8 Juridico-Discursive Power and Biopower

6.9 Power and Sense

6.10 Conclusion

Chapter 7 Deleuze and the Question of Determination

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Image of Thought

7.3 Common Sense and Recognition

7.4 The Encounter

7.5 Intensity

7.6 Transcendental Ideas and the Calculus

7.7 Deleuzian Ideas

7.8 Conclusion

Concluding Remarks

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Print version Somers-Hall, Henry. Judgement and sense in modern French philosophy

ISBN:

9781009047920

1009047922

OCLC:

1256592266

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