Neofinalism /
Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-WWII French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of 'Neofinalism, ' considered by many to be Ruyer's ma...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2016.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Although little known today, Raymond Ruyer was a post-WWII French philosopher whose works and ideas were significant influences on major thinkers, including Deleuze, Guattari, and Simondon. With the publication of this translation of 'Neofinalism, ' considered by many to be Ruyer's magnum opus, English-language readers can see at last how this seminal mind allied philosophy with science. Unfazed by the idea of philosophy ending where science began, Ruyer elaborated a singular, nearly unclassifiable metaphysics and reactivated philosophy's capacity to speculate on its canonical questions: What exists? How are we to account for life? WHat is the status of subjectivity? And how is freedom possible? |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (336 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781452950129 |