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Concept of World from Kant to Derrida

  • ISBN-13: 9781783480005
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD INTERNAT.
  • By Sean Gaston
  • Price: AUD $372.00
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  • Local release date: 14/11/2013
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Philosophy: logic [HPL]
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In the mid-eighteenth century metaphysics was broadly understood as the study of three areas of philosophical thought: theology, psychology and cosmology. This book examines the fortunes of the third of these formidable metaphysical concepts, the world. Sean Gaston provides a clear and concise account of the concept of world from the mid-eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, exploring its possibilities and limitations and engaging with current issues in politics and ecology. He focuses on the work of five principal thinkers: Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger and Derrida, all of whom attempt to establish new grounds for seeing the world as a whole. Gaston presents a critique of the self-evident use of the concept of world in philosophy and asks whether one can move beyond the need for a world-like vantage point to maintain a concept of world. From Kant to the present day this concept has been a problem for philosophy and it remains to be seen if we need a new Copernican revolution when it comes to the concept of world.
'Sean Gaston's The Concept of World from Kant to Derrida is a thorough and thoroughly compelling study of a range of essential concepts associated with "world" in modernity. In firm control of a bewildering array of information, Gaston delineates with enviable clarity the origins and trajectories of "world." Students of phenomenology, in particular, will benefit from this work, not least of all in its brilliant reading of Jacques Derrida.' -- Kevin Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia, USA 'This is a rich and original book. Dealing with such varied, difficult, and unruly authors would be a challenge for any scholar. Gaston manages this feat of guiding us through many different positions without sidetracking us or losing us in the meanders of philological squabbles. This book exemplifies the richness of continental philosophy for contemporary issues, social, ethical or political.' -- Pol Vandevelde, Professor of Philosophy, Marquette University, USA
Preface: Writing on the World / 1. The Kantian World / 2. Hegel and the World as Spirit / 3. Husserl and the Phenomenological World / 4. Heidegger and the Problem of World / 5. Derrida and the End of the World / 6. World, Fiction and the Earth / Bibliography / Index
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