
Dialectics Beyond Dialectics
Translated by Cain Elliott and Jan Burzynski
Malgorzata Kowalska(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 29. March 2015
Book
Hardback
273 pages
978-3-631-62678-8 (ISBN)
Description
Dialectics beyond Dialectics is a study of contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida. It analyses, on the first level of generalization, the decomposition of Hegelianism understood as philosophy of totality. Many French philosophers of the 20th century deconstruct Hegelian dialectics and harshly criticize the very idea of totality as either dangerous or impossible. The thesis of the book is that, on doing so, they do not really break with dialectics, but transform it. On the second level of generalization, the issue of the book is modernity and the thesis is that transformations of dialectics reveal transformations of modern consciousness which - despite hasty declarations on the end of modernity - still remains ours.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
470 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-62678-8 (9783631626788)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02384-8
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03/2015
Peter Lang Verlag
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Person
Malgorzata Kowalska is professor of Philosophy at the University of Bialystok (Poland). She specializes in French philosophy and moral and political philosophy. Her field of interest comprises Sartre, Levinas and other French contemporary thinkers, the idea of democracy and that of Europe.
Content
Contents: Spectres of totality - Criticism of the idea of totality as insufficient - Dangerous, impossible totality and identity - Aspects of difference: division and dispersion - Divided and dispersed subject, devided and dispersed history - Dialectics as the way of thinking totality and difference - Modernity and postmodernity - Dialectics and <<postdialectics>> - Bataille, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Aron, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, Derrida.