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Published: 18th February 1988
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The explosion of creative and speculative philosophy that emerged in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century is a thrilling intellectual adventure story, as well as an essential chapter in the history of philosophy. The main theme of this story is the rise and fall of the Self. The Self in question is no ordinary self - no individual personality nor even one of the many heroic or mock-heroic personalities of the early nineteenth century. The Self is the Transcendental Self, whose nature and ambitions are unprecedently arrogant, cosmic and often obscure. In modest terms, this universal self is human nature. In less modest terms, the Transcendental Self is nothing less than God. This thesis is what Solomon terms the Transcendental Pretence. The book is an accessible introduction to the difficult authors of modern European philosophy. The major figures and movements are treated in an integrated narrative, free of jargon. Included are: The Enlightenment and Romanticism, German Idealism, Kant, Fichte, Schelling and the Romantics, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, Max Bretano, Meinong, Frege, Dilthey, Bergson, Nietzsche, Husserl, Freud, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Hermeneutics, Sartre, Post-Modernism, Structuralism, Foucault and Derrida.
'An excellent introduction, scholarly, readable and informative.' A. Thatcher, College of St Mark & St John 'it sets out its objectives with clear and persuasive introductory comments ... Professor Solomon writes elegantly and always fascinatingly' TES
| Opus General Editors | p. ii |
| Prologue What Rousseau Found in the Woods | p. 1 |
| Introduction Modern Continental Philosophy And The Transcendental Pretence | p. 3 |
| The Discovery of the Self: Rousseau | p. 16 |
| The Rise of the Self in German Idealism | p. 23 |
| Kant and the German Enlightenment | p. 25 |
| Romancing the Self: Fichte, Schelling Schiller, and Romanticism | p. 44 |
| Hegel and the Apotheosis of Self As Spirit | p. 56 |
| Beyond Enlightenment The Collapse of the Absolute | p. 73 |
| The Self Turned Sour: Schopenhauer | p. 75 |
| After Hegel: Kierkegaard, Feuerbach Marx | p. 86 |
| The Anti-Transcendental Turn: Logic Empiricism, and the Rise of Relativism | p. 99 |
| The Attack on the Self: Nietzsche And Nihilism | p. 111 |
| The Self in and for Itself Phenomenology and Beyond | p. 127 |
| The Transcendental Reaction: Husserl's Science of the Ego | p. 129 |
| Two Discontents and Their Civilization Freud and Wittgenstein | p. 139 |
| The Self Reinterpreted: Heidegger And Hermeneutics | p. 152 |
| The Self in France: Sartre, Camus De Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty | p. 173 |
| Supplement The End of the Self: Structuralism Post-Modernism, Foucault, And Derrida | p. 194 |
| References | p. 203 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 211 |
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ISBN: 9780192892027
ISBN-10: 0192892029
Series: Opus
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 222
Published: 18th February 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 19.63 x 12.93
x 1.73
Weight (kg): 0.17
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