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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463461303321

Autore

Lawlor Leonard <1954->

Titolo

Early twentieth-century Continental philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / Leonard Lawlor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-59658-9

9786613626417

0-253-00516-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought

Disciplina

190.9/04

Soggetti

Continental philosophy - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: structure and genesis of early twentieth-century Continental philosophy -- Thinking beyond Platonism: Bergson's "Introduction to metaphysics" (1903) -- Schizophrenic thought: Freud's "The unconscious" (1915) -- Consciousness as distance: Husserl's "Phenomenology" (the 1929 Encyclopedia Britannica entry) -- The thought of the nothing: Heidegger's "What is metaphysics?" (1929)  -- Dwelling in the speaking of language: Heidegger's "Language" (1950) -- Dwelling in the texture of the visible: Merleau-Ponty's "Eye and mind" (1961) -- Enveloped in a nameless voice: Foucault's "The thought of the outside" (1966) -- Conclusion: further questions.

Sommario/riassunto

Early Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy elaborates the basic project of contemporary continental philosophy, which culminates in a movement toward the outside. Leonard Lawlor interprets key texts by major figures in the continental tradition, including Bergson, Foucault, Freud, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty, to develop the broad sweep of the aims of continental philosophy. Lawlor discusses major theoretical trends in the work of these philosophers-immanence, difference, multiplicity, and the overcoming of metaphysics. His conception of continental philosophy as a unified proj