Metaphysics in ordinary language / Stanley Rosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosen, Stanley, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Ordinary-language philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 290 p. )

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this rich collection of philosophical writings, Stanley Rosen addresses a wide range of topics-from eros, poetry, and freedom to problems like negation and the epistemological status of sense perception. Though diverse in subject, Rosen's essays share two unifying principles: there can be no legitimate separation of textual hermeneutics from philosophical analysis, and philosophical investigation must be oriented in terms of everyday language and experience, although it cannot simply remain within these confines. Ordinary experience provides a minimal criterion for the assessment of extraordinary discourses, Rosen argues, and without such a criterion we would have no basis for evaluating conflicting discourses: philosophy would give way to poetry.Philosophical problems are not so deeply embedded in a specific historical context that they cannot be restated in terms as valid for us today as they were for those who formulated them, the author maintains. Rosen shows that the history of philosophy-a story of conflicting interpretations of human life and the structure of intelligibility-is a story that comes to life only when it is rethought in terms of the philosophical problems of our own personal and historical situation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Suspicion, Deception, and Concealment

Chapter 2. The Lived Present

Chapter 3. Erotic Ascent

Chapter 4. The Golden Apple

Chapter 5. The Problem of Sense Perception in Plato's Philebus

Chapter 6. Forms, Elements, and Categories

Chapter 7. Technē and the Origins of Modernity

Chapter 8. Sad Reason

Chapter 9. Transcendental Indeterminateness

Chapter 10. Freedom and Reason

Chapter 11. Interpretation and the Fusion of Horizons: Remarks on Gadamer

Chapter 12. Is There a Sign of Freedom?

Chapter 13. Philosophy and Ordinary Experience

Chapter 14. Nothing and Dialectic

Chapter 15. Kojève's Paris: A Memoir

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300150469

0300150466

9780585380469

0585380465

OCLC:

1024008990