Recapitulations : essays in philosophy / by Thomas Prufer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prufer, Thomas, 1929- author.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; Volume 26.

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; Volume 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 112 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [1993]

Summary:

Provides commentary on prominent philosophers on important philosophical themes. "These unusual and exquisiteessays focus on a problem or a text with extraordinary acuity".

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Chronology and Acknowledgments of Previous Publication

1. The Dramatic Form of Plato's Phaedo

2. Aristotelian Themes

3. Providence and Imitation: Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Aristotle's Poetics

4. Notes on Nature

The City and the Garden

Nature and Gods in Epicureanism

Hobbes's Sovereign Teaching

5. A Reading of Augustine's Confessions, Book X

6. Creation, Solitude and Publicity

7. Juxtapositions: Aristotle, Aquinas, Strauss

8. A Reading of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature

9· Husserlian Distinctions and Strategies in The Crisis

10. Quotation and Writing, Egos and Tokenings, Variables and Gaps

11. The Logic of Modernity

12. Husserl, Heidegger, Early and Late, and Aquinas

13· The Death of Charm and the Advent of Grace: Waugh's Brideshead Revisited

Scholium I (Chapter 11): Two Doxologies: Argument and Praise

Scholium II (Chapter 12): Glosses on Heidegger's Architectonic Word-Play

Scholium III (Chapter 12): Heidegger between (Gadamer's) Plato and Aristotle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-3065-9

OCLC:

1032070898