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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812793403321

Autore

Rosen Stanley <1929->

Titolo

The elusiveness of the ordinary [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the possibility of philosophy / / Stanley Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-281-73033-5

9786611730338

0-300-12952-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (viii, 327 p.))

Disciplina

149/.94

Soggetti

Ordinary-language philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Politics and nature in Montesquieu -- Husserl's conception of the life-world -- Kant and Heidegger: transcendental alternatives to Aristotle --  Wittgenstein, Strauss, and the possibility of philosophy -- Moore on common sense -- Austin and ordinary language -- What do we talk about? -- The attributes of ordinary experience -- Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language, and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures. Eminent philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents the first comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary-how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical (and so, extraordinary) artifact.Rosen's approach is both historical and philosophical. He offers Montesquieu and Husserl as examples of the scientific approach to ordinary experience; contrasts Kant and Heidegger with Aristotle to illustrate the transcendental approach and its main alternatives; discusses attempts by Wittgenstein and Strauss to return to the pre-theoretical domain; and analyzes the differences



among such thinkers as Moore, Austin, Grice, and Russell with respect to the analytical response to ordinary language. Rosen concludes with a theoretical exploration of the central problem of how to capture the elusive ordinary intact.