Essays in Philosophy: Modern

by Stanley Rosen, Martin Black (Editor)

Overview

This collection testifies to the remarkable range of Stanley Rosen’s learning and reflection in the history of philosophy, both ancient and modern. The publication of these essays, with all their speculative depth and richness, is truly a great philosophical benefit. It will throw new light on Rosen’s thinking on many topics in metaphysics and political philosophy and on his readings of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kojève, Strauss, and other figures. - Richard Velkley, Tulane University

To say that Stanley Rosen is “one of kind” does not begin to do justice to his originality, or to the unique place in American letters that he has carved out for himself. His writing - erudite, witty and passionate - is also philosophically explosive and always alive with the cadence of energetic speech.  This collection of his essays on ancient and modern philosophy is a valuable and often provocative selection of many of his most engaging essays. - Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587312274
Publisher:	St. Augustine's Press
Publication date:	04/25/2013
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Stanley Rosen, Prof. Emer. in Philosophy from Boston University, is a heralded author of numerous works in ancient and medieval philosophy. Other works of Stanley Rosen published by St. Augustine’s Press: Plato’s Symposium, Plato’s Sophist, Plato’s Statesman, The Ancients and the Moderns, Nihilism, G.W.F. Hegel, The Limits of Analysis, The Question of Being, and Metaphysics in Ordinary Language.

Martin Black completed his Ph.D. on Plato’s depiction of the Socratic turn under the supervision of Stanley Rosen at Boston University in 2009. He has published articles on Plato’s Symposium, the crisis of modernity, and self-knowledge, and is preparing a manuscript on the Socratic turn and a translation of several Platonic dialogues. He teaches ancient and medieval philosophy and the ancient Greek language and literature at Suffolk University.
 

Table of Contents

1. Are We Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On? Against Reductionism
2. Kant’s Doctrine of Perception
3. Kant on Happiness
4. Is There a Transition from Consciousness to Self-Consciousness?
5. Review of Alexandre Kojève, Essai d’une histoire raisonnée de la philosophie paienne, Tome 1: Les Présocratiques 
6. Negation and Dialectic
7. Is Thinking Spontaneous?
8. Contributions to “Contributions”
9. Freedom and Reason
10. Review of Steven Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
11. Paradigms of Philosophizing and the Future of Philosophy
12. Back to the Beginning: Comment on Catherine Zuckert, Postmodern Platos
13. The Absence of Structure
14. Review of Carl Page, Philosophical Historicism and the Betrayal of First Philosophy
15. Philosophy in an Age of Postmodernism
16. Being Unreasonable: Review of Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason. The Intellectual Romance with Fascism From Nietzsche to Postmodernism
17. Postmodernism and the Possibility of Critical Thinking
18. Mind and Body in Nietzsche
19. Thoughts on the Universal Homogeneous State
20. The Identity of, and Difference between, Analytical and Continental Philosophy
21. Hegel and Historicism
22. Memory and Human Time
23. Human Temporality in Plato, Husserl, and Heidegger
24. Freedom and Spontaneity
25. Remarks on Amartya Sen