Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory

Appropriating Historical Traditions
Herausgeber: Cook, Patricia

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Produktbeschreibung

Does philosophy have a future? Postmodern thought, with its rejection of claims to absolute truth or moral objectivity, would seem to put the philosophical enterprise in jeopardy. In this volume some of today's most influential thinkers face the question of philosophy's future and find an answer in its past. Their efforts show how historical traditions are currently being appropriated by philosophy, how some of the most provocative questions confronted by philosophers are given their impetus and direction by cultural memory. Unlike analytic philosophy, a discipline supposedly liberated from any manifestation of cultural memory, the movement represented by these essays demonstrates how the inquiries, narratives, traditions, and events of our cultural past can mediate some of the most interesting exercises of the present-day philosophical imagination. Attesting to the power of historical tradition to enhance and redirect the prospects of philosophy these essays exemplify a new mode of doing philosophy. The product of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in 1990, it is the task of this book to show that history can be reclaimed by philosophy and resurrected in postmodernity. Contributors. George Allan, Eva T. H. Brann, Arthur C. Danto, Lynn S. Joy, George L. Kline, George R. Lucas, Jr., Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert C. Neville, John Rickard, Stanley Rosen, J. B. Scheenwind, Donald Phillip Verene

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 1993
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780822313076
• ISBN-10: 0822313073
• Artikelnr.: 42992708

Autorenporträt

Patricia Cook, ed.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgment vii
Introduction 1
Part I. Philosophy and Cultural Memory
Traditions and Transitions / George Allan 21
Two Sources of Philosophical Memory: Vico Versus Hegel / Donald Phillip
Verene 40
Part II. Philosophical Imagination and the History of Philosophy
Are Philosophical Problems Insoluble? The Relevance of System and History /
Alasdair MacIntyre 65
Modern Moral Philosophy: From Beginning to End? / J. B. Schneewind 83
Refutation, Narrative, and Engagement: Three Conceptions of the History of
Philosophy / George R. Lucas, Jr. 104
Part III. Perspectives on the Significance of Cultural Memory
The Shape of Artistic Pasts: East and West / Arthur C. Danto 125
Humanism and the Problem of Traditions in Seventeenth-Century Natural
Philosophy / Lynn S. Joy 139
The Symbiotic Relation of Philosophy and Theology / Robert Cummings Neville
149
Part IV. Cultural Memory and Textual Interpretation
The Six Silences of a Grecian Urn / Eva T. H. Brann 167
Changing Russian Assessments of Spinoza and Their German Sources, 1796-1862
/ George L. Kline 176
Tradition and Intertextual Memory in James Joyce's Ulysses / John S.
Rickard 195
Plato's Quarrel with the Poets / Stanley Roesn 212
Selected Bibliography 227
Index 233
Contributors 245