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Loveknowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231160452)
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xSince its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet these thinkers all share a common method of practicing philosophy--not as a detached, intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art.
What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. LoveKnowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities.Author: Roy Brand
ISBN-10: 0231160453
ISBN-13: 9780231160452
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/21/2016
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 6.70h x 5.20w x 0.50d
By Roy Brand
xRoy Brand is a professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College and the director and chief curator of Bezalel, Yaffo 23/Jerusaelm, center for contemporary art and culture. He is the editor and translator of "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Habermas and Derrida" and editor and consultant curator of "Bare Life: Contemporary Art Reflecting on the State of Emergency."
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