Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Hermeneutics As Politics by Stanley Rosen, Robert B. Pippin ISBN: 0-300-09987-8 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Interpretive Vision--Political Vision
Comment: Rosen displays uncanny ability here to touch the most vital issues in the conversations of so-called postmodern thinkers--"so-called" because he envisages them as continuing the work of enlightenment. That Derrida, Foucault, and others have critiqued western philosophy's dead ends is no accident, argues Rosen, because enlightenment thinkers such as Kant were themselves dealing with these problems. The dilemma of the relation between freedom and knowledge, for example, has led some--not necessarily Rosen--to the conclusion that reality is nothing more than what is politically entrenched. What Rosen wants to advocate, though, is that theory can glimpse a reality lying behind multiplicity of interpetation--"theoria" means "to get a look at." Finally, this book excels at explicating modern philosophical conversations, whether between Foucault and Habermas, Derrida and the Talmud, Kojeve and Strauss, or Rorty and Lyotard.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Timely Reminder
Comment: An interesting characteristic of North American academia is its strange reluctance to accept a political role. Thus, the discomfort evident when trying to explain the obvious political heritage and tone of continental philosophers such as Heidegger, Sartre, or Derrida. Somehow, we imagine that the academic world is not to be "sullied" by such pedestrian concerns as politics. Consequently, Americans and Canadians both have misunderstood how profoundly political post-modernism is in its most basic tenets.
Here, from Stanley Rosen, comes a timely reminder of this, and a hard-headed and tactical one at that.
While some may take exception (I did) to the unnecessarily strident tone of argument employed here, there is no doubt that Stanley Rosen's analysis of post-modern hermeneutics from a politico-historical perspective is nothing short of brilliant. This is not a philosophical text for those who prefer to evade debate, or shrink away from conflict.
However, aside from the often unnecessary "bran" in many of his arguments, there is an incredibly studied, deeply knowledgeable mind at work here. His obvious mastery of material outweighs the often reactionary aspects of his writing. He appreciates the political nature of post-modernism, and clarifies it (and would probably like to convince us of certain of his own preferences regarding it). However, this is not the main thrust of the book.
And, if you want to read a philosophical essay so insightful and cogent it will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, you must read his chapter "Platonic Reconstruction". It is worth the cost of the entire book.
More Wanderings: http://www.broken-hill.net/wanderings/wander.html
 |
Title: The Ancients and the Moderns: Rethinking Modernity by Stanley Rosen ISBN: 1587310244 Publisher: Saint Augustine's Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
 |
Title: The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger by Stanley Rosen ISBN: 1587316757 Publisher: Saint Augustine's Pr Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
 |
Title: What Is Political Philosophy: And Other Studies by Leo Strauss ISBN: 0226777138 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
 |
Title: Thoughts on Machiavelli by Leo Strauss ISBN: 0226777022 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
 |
Title: Idealism as Modernism : Hegelian Variations by Robert B. Pippin ISBN: 0521568730 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
