Rationalist Empiricism : : A Theory of Speculative Critique / / Nathan Brown.

Twenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant’s transcendental philosophy attempted to displace the...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 29 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: The Philosophical Conjuncture
  • PART I. Rationalist Empiricism
  • 1. Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions
  • 2. Althusser’s Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism
  • PART II. Speculative Critique
  • 3. Hegel’s Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics
  • 4. Hegel’s Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism
  • PART III. Science, Art, Structure
  • 5. Hegel’s Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units
  • 6. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier
  • 7. Where’s Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato’s Timaeus
  • Coda: Structure and Form
  • PART IV. Theory and Praxis
  • 8. Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction
  • 9. The Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality: From Althusser to Théorie Communiste
  • 10. The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx
  • Conclusion: The True, the Good, the Beautiful
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index