(P/B) CURRENT CONTINENTAL THEORY AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Παρουσίαση

For decades, continental theorists from Levinas and Derrida to Kristeva and Gadamer have engaged in provocative, penetrating, and often extensive examinations of modern philosophers, providing new ways to think about figures such as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Kant. Current Continental Theory and Modern Philosophy gives this work its due for the first time. A systematic rereading of early modern philosophers in light of recent continental philosophy, this volume exposes overlooked but critical aspects of sixteenth- through eighteenth-century philosophy as it brings to light certain historical assumptions that have colored-and distorted-the understanding of modernist thought. How has early modern thought influenced contemporary philosophy? How have recent theorists engaged this material, and why? Some essays explore how major continental theorists such as Derrida, Deleuze, Le Doeuff, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, and Althusser explicate the ideas of classical modern thinkers; others draw on recent continental insights to analyze the doctrines of modern philosophers beginning with Machiavelli and ending with Kant. As a whole, the essays show how current continental theory reinvigorates the study of the history of modern philosophers by transforming not only the interpretation of their answers to certain questions but also our understanding of the very nature of these questions. (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ΤΟΥ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ)