LoveKnowledge
The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida
1st Edition
Published on 25. September 2015
160 pages
978-0-231-53084-2 (ISBN)
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Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet these thinkers all share a common method of practicing philosophy-not as a detached, intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art.
What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. LoveKnowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities.
What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. LoveKnowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities.
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Roy Brandis Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts at Tel Aviv University; he also founded and served as Director and Chief Curator of Yaffo 23, a center for art and culture in downtown Jerusalem. He is the author of LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida (Columbia, 2012), the editor and translator of Borradori: Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Habermas and Derrida (Chicago, 2004), and the editor and consultant curator of Bare Life (Museum on the Seam, 2007).Roy Brandis Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts at Tel Aviv University; he also founded and served as Director and Chief Curator of Yaffo 23, a center for art and culture in downtown Jerusalem. He is the author of LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida (Columbia, 2012), the editor and translator of Borradori: Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Habermas and Derrida (Chicago, 2004), and the editor and consultant curator of Bare Life (Museum on the Seam, 2007).
Roy Brandis Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts at Tel Aviv University; he also founded and served as Director and Chief Curator of Yaffo 23, a center for art and culture in downtown Jerusalem. He is the author of LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida (Columbia, 2012), the editor and translator of Borradori: Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Habermas and Derrida (Chicago, 2004), and the editor and consultant curator of Bare Life (Museum on the Seam, 2007).Roy Brandis Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts at Tel Aviv University; he also founded and served as Director and Chief Curator of Yaffo 23, a center for art and culture in downtown Jerusalem. He is the author of LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida (Columbia, 2012), the editor and translator of Borradori: Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Habermas and Derrida (Chicago, 2004), and the editor and consultant curator of Bare Life (Museum on the Seam, 2007).
Content
Preface
1. Undoing Knowledge: Socrates of the Apology
2. The Logic of Desire: Socrates of the Symposium
3. Under a Certain Form of Eternity: Spinoza's Ethics
4. Communicating Solitude: Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker
5. How We Become What We Are: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
6. Becoming Other: Foucault's History of Sexuality
7. Derrida's "Here I Am"
Notes
Index
1. Undoing Knowledge: Socrates of the Apology
2. The Logic of Desire: Socrates of the Symposium
3. Under a Certain Form of Eternity: Spinoza's Ethics
4. Communicating Solitude: Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker
5. How We Become What We Are: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals
6. Becoming Other: Foucault's History of Sexuality
7. Derrida's "Here I Am"
Notes
Index
Read the chapter, "Derrida's 'Here I Am'" (to view in full screen, click on icon in bottom right-hand corner)
