{"product_id":"the-sea-as-mirror-wu-yi-9783035803686","title":"The Sea as Mirror: Essayings in and Against Philosophy as History","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Sea as Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e traces the pressing and repressed material and symbolic presence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean from Plato to Heidegger. To do so, Wu Yi employs the maritime as a lens to understand the drive of philosophy as both a response to and moment within the impetus of Western colonization. Yi examines how philosophy has again and again constructed itself as a genre in opposition to the movement of deterritorialization and fluidity of mimesis. She does so via the method (meta, \"after\" + hodos, \"way, journey\") of a series of essayings (in the original sense of trial, measure, attempt) across a geopolitical topography of discourses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These include philosophical texts drawn from a constellation of historical topoi at the critical moments of their encounter with the maritime: Plato and Euripedes's work from fifth-century Athens; Augustus and Plautus's writings from republican and early imperial Rome; Shakespeare's creations from Elizabethan England; Kant and Rousseau's texts from enlightenment continental Europe; and the thinking of Husserl and Heidegger from interwar Germany of the twentieth century. For each historical topos, Yi juxtaposes different representations of and responses to the maritime through the reading of a philosophical text vis- -vis the reading of a literary text. In so doing, she lays bare the deep political and moral ambiguity attributed to the ocean in Western philosophical and literary imaginaries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wu Yi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3035803684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783035803686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Diaphanes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Wu Yi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990911647999,"sku":"9783035803686","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d4180a2-4151-4792-8dee-35bc4adadb35.jpg?v=1683307380","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sea-as-mirror-wu-yi-9783035803686","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}