The Death of Philosophy : : Reference and Self-reference in Contemporary Thought / / Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel.

Philosophers debate the death of philosophy as much as they debate the death of God. Kant claimed responsibility for both philosophy's beginning and end, while Heidegger argued it concluded with Nietzsche. In the twentieth century, figures as diverse as John Austin and Richard Rorty have procla...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Translator's Note
  • Introduction
  • I. The End of Philosophy, or the Paradoxes of Speaking
  • 1. Skeptical and Scientific "Post-philosophy"
  • 2. "Saying and the Said": Two Paradigms for the Same Subject
  • 3. The Antispeculative View: Habermas as an Example
  • 4. Kant's Shadow in the Current Philosophical Landscape
  • II. Challenging the "Death of Philosophy": The Reflexive A Priori
  • 5. A Definition of the Model: Scientific Learning and Philosophical Knowledge
  • 6. The Model of Self-reference's Consistency
  • 7. The Model's Fecundity
  • 8. Beyond the Death of Philosophy
  • III. The End of Philosophy in Perspective: The Source of the Reflexive Deficit
  • 9. The "Race to Reference"
  • 10. The Tension Between Reference and Self-reference in the Kantian System
  • 11. Helmholtz's Choice as a Choice for Reference: The Naturalization of Critique
  • 12. Critique: A Positivist Theory of Knowledge or Existential Ontology?
  • 13. Questioning the History of Philosophy
  • Conclusion
  • Notes