Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet these thinkers all share a common method of practicing philosophy—not as a detached, intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art.
What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. Love Knowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface
1. Undoing Knowledge: Socrates of the Apology
2. The Logic of Desire: Socrates of the Symposium
3. Under a Certain Form of Eternity: Spinoza’s Ethics
4. Communicating Solitude: Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker
5. How We Become What We Are: Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals
6. Becoming Other: Foucault’s History of Sexuality
7. Derrida’s ‘Here I Am’
Notes
Index
Circa l’autore
Roy Brandis Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts at Tel Aviv University; he also founded and served as Director and Chief Curator of Yaffo 23, a center for art and culture in downtown Jerusalem. He is the author of
Love Knowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida (Columbia, 2012), the editor and translator of Borradori:
Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Habermas and Derrida (Chicago, 2004)
, and the editor and consultant curator of
Bare Life (Museum on the Seam, 2007).
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