Questioning and Historicity
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-1-4411-2111-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first English translation of a major work of French Philosophy, in which Meyer questions the very act of philosophical questioning. Originally published in 2000, this is the first English translation of the major work of a Philosopher whose writings have been described by Le Monde as 'revolutionary'. For Michel Meyer, in an age where everything is problematised the question itself must become not only the method but also the subject of a truly 21st century philosophy. "Questioning and Historicity" is the most authoritative account yet published of Meyer's philosophy of 'Problematology', a philosophy that questions questioning itself. The book explores how and why questioning has been repressed and explains why we should look now to questioning, examining all the consequences of this for thought, man, science, ethics, and all the age-old concerns of philosophy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-2111-0 (9781441121110)
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Persons
Nick Turnbull is lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. Nadia Alves is a freelance translator. She has worked for CNN and translated essays for the book City of God in Several Voices. Michel Meyer is Professor of Philosophy at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He has published many works of philosophy, covering metaphysics, logic, literature, science, the passions, art, theatre and rhetoric. He is the Editor of the Revue Internationale de Philosophie and was recently awarded the title of Chevalier des Artes et des Lettres by the French Government.
Content
1. The Question of Questioning; 2. The Question of Historicity and the Ultimate Principles of Thought; Part I. THE ORDER OF ANSWERS; Book I: The order of answers conceived as the order of judgement; 1. The Analytic of the Order of Responses Conceived as the Order of Propositions; 2. The Circularities and Aporias of the Order of Judgement; Book II: The Order of Answers Conceived As Such; 1. The Apocritique of Answering As Such: The Complete Principles of Resolution; 2. The Effectuation of Answering or the Effectivity of Questioning; PART II. HISTORICITY; Book I. The Structure of Questioning and the Linkage of History; 1. The Level of Questions and the Level of Answers: the Logic of Problematological Answers; 2. Questioning in History as a Double Repression; 3. The Answer to the Forms of Historicity: Space and Time; Book II. Historicity as the Question of Identity; 1. The Question of the Questioner, or the Human as Problem; 2. The effectivity of the question of the questioner; 3. The Historicity of the Question of the Questioner; 4. The Liberty of History; Book III. Historicity as the Expression of Alterity; 1. The Conceptual Systems of Alterity; 2. The Pragmatics of Alterity: the Alterization of Conceptual Systems; 3. The Pathematic of Alterity: Vice and Virtue; Conclusion: Philosophy as Problematology; Bibliography; Index.