| Philosophical Temperaments: From Plato to Foucault Contributor(s): Sloterdijk, Peter (Author), Dunlap, Thomas (Translator), Davis, Creston (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0231153724 ISBN-13: 9780231153720 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Philosophers - Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 190 |
| LCCN: 2012037921 |
| Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Peter Sloterdijk turns his keen eye to the history of western thought, conducting colorful readings of the lives and ideas of the world's most influential intellectuals. Featuring nineteen vignettes rich in personal characterizations and theoretical analysis, Sloterdijk's companionable volume casts the development of philosophical thinking not as a buildup of compelling books and arguments but as a lifelong, intimate struggle with intellectual and spiritual movements, filled with as many pitfalls and derailments as transcendent breakthroughs. Sloterdijk delves into the work and times of Aristotle, Augustine, Bruno, Descartes, Foucault, Fichte, Hegel, Husserl, Kant, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Marx, Nietzsche, Pascal, Plato, Sartre, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Wittgenstein. He provocatively juxtaposes Plato against shamanism and Marx against Gnosticism, revealing both the vital external influences shaping these intellectuals' thought and the excitement and wonder generated by the application of their thinking in the real world. The philosophical "temperament" as conceived by Sloterdijk represents the uniquely creative encounter between the mind and a diverse array of cultures. It marks these philosophers' singular achievements and the special dynamic at play in philosophy as a whole. Creston Davis's introduction details Sloterdijk's own temperament, surveying the celebrated thinker's intellectual context, rhetorical style, and philosophical persona. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davis, Creston: - Creston Davis (PhD, Philosopht, Virginia) is the founding director of the Global Center for Advanced Studies, a fully accredited (European Union) hybrid virtual/physical institution located in Dublin, New York, and Santiago, Chile. (This was and is a major innovation, offering no-cost PhD degrees in social and political thought and philosophy taught by volunteer professors including Alain Badiou, Luce Irigaray, Jean-Luc Nancy, Drucilla Cornell, and Lewis Gordon.) He is a coeditor (with Slavoj Zizek, Clayton Crockett, and Jeffrey Robbins) of the Columbia series Insurrections, the coauthor (with Crockett, Robbins, and Noelle Vahanian) of An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Columbia, 2016), and the coeditor (with Zizek, and Crockett) of Hegel and the Infinite (Columbia, 2011), among a number of other books. |