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A philosophy of the essay : scepticism, experience and style /
"Erin Plunkett draws from both analytic and continental sources to argue for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that the essay form is uniquely suited to address the sceptical problem. The authors examined here - Montaigne, Hume, the early German Romantics, Kierkegaard and St...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Knowing and essaying; What do we know?; Getting reality right; Language and world; The essayistic mode; Notes; Chapter 2 Nostres Conditions in Montaigne's essays; Montaigne and ordinary language; Montaigne and the Renaissance; The shape of experience; Narrating the self; Challenging norms of authority; Notes; Chapter 3 Concepts in conversation in the Humean essay; Hume and scepticism; Writing therapeutically; 'Of the Standard of Taste'; The ethics of essaying; Notes
- Chapter 4 Infinite approximation in the German romantic fragmentAnti-foundationalism and thinking in circles; Fragments of what?; Systemlosigkeit, in ein System; Notes; Chapter 5 Possibility in Kierkegaard's imaginative discourses; Doubt and faith; 'Interested' communication; Plurality and irony; A via negativa to faith; The sublime in the everyday; Notes; Chapter 6 Scepticism and acknowledgement in Cavell's essays; The prize of the ordinary; Language and others; Reading and responsibility; The task of philosophical writing; Notes; Conclusion; Genre and form; Scepticism; Montaigne; Hume
- German idealism and romanticismKierkegaard; Cavell; Other cited works; Bibliography; Index