Being after Rousseau

Philosophy and Culture in Question

By: Richard L. Velkley

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In Being after Rousseau, Richard L. Velkley presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the founder of a modern European tradition of reflection on the relation of philosophy to culture-a reflection that calls both into question. Tracing this tradition from Rousseau to Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schelling, and Martin Heidegger, Velkley shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature and society, culture and civilization, and philosophy and society that Rousseau brought to the fore.

The Rousseauian tradition begins, for Velkley, with Rousseau's criticism of modern political philosophy. Although the German Idealists such as Schelling accepted much of Rousseau's critique, they believed, unlike Rousseau, that human wholeness could be attained at the level of society and history. Heidegger and Nietzsche questioned this claim, but followed both Rousseau and the Idealists in their vision of the philosopher-poet striving to recover an original wholeness that the history of reason has distorted.

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"I know of no more perceptive and learned commentator on the infrastructure of the development from Rousseau through Kant and German Idealism to Nietzsche and Heidegger than Richard Velkley. This integrated collection of essays is essential reading for everyone who is interested in the ramifications of Rousseau's distinction between culture and civilization as well as in his grounding contribution to the modern conception of the historical nature of reason." - Stanley Rosen, Boston University

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Recalling Origins
The Tension in the Beautiful: On Culture and Civilization in Rousseau and German Philosophy
The Rift in Being
Speech, Imagination, Origins: Rousseau and the Political Animal
Freedom, Teleology, and Justification of Reason: On the Philosophical Importance of Kant's Rousseauian Turn
Logical Socratism
On Kant's Socratism
Kant on the Primacy and the Limits of Logic
Poetic Wholeness
Moral Finality and the Unity of Homo Sapiens: On Teleology in Kant
Realizing Nature in the Self: Schelling on Art and Intellectual Intuition in the System of Transcendental Idealism
Being in Retreat
The Necessity of Error: Schelling's Autocritique and the History of Philosophy
Heidegger's Step behind the Greeks
Notes
Index
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