Francois Hemsterhuis and the Writing of Philosophy / / Daniel Whistler.
Resets the scholarship on the philosophical practice and style of François HemsterhuisOnly the second ever English-language monograph devoted to Hemsterhuis’ philosophy and the first for 45 years. Feeds into an upsurge of interest in Hemsterhuis around celebrations of the tricentenary of his birth a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface: Reasons to Read Hemsterhuis
- Part One. Preliminaries
- 1 Philosophy and Poetry
- 2 Rupture
- Part Two. Untimely Demands
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Socrates and Newton
- 3 ‘Born Greek’
- 4 Geometrical Method
- 5 A System of Times
- Chapter Two. Analysis and Poetry
- 6 ‘Poet-Philosophers’ and ‘Humble’ Analysts
- 7 Sentimental Certainty
- 8 The Platonic Sublime
- 9 The Myth of Prometheus
- Part Three. A History of Organs
- Introduction
- Chapter Three. Organs, Instruments and Insects
- 10 Insectification
- 11 The Plasticity of Philosophy
- 12 Perfectibility
- 13 The Analogy to Morality
- 14 Organology and Style
- Chapter Four. Writing after Materialism
- 15 Diderot Reads Hemsterhuis
- 16 Hemsterhuis Reads Diderot
- 17 Palingenesis and the Subversion of Materialism
- 18 Post-Bonnetian Style
- Part Four. Time-Images
- Introduction
- Chapter Five. The Past and the Present
- 19 The Optimum
- 20 Epistolary Style
- 21 Genealogy
- 22 Irony and Anachronism
- Chapter Six. The Archaic and the Prophetic
- 23 Dreams and Shadows
- 24 In the Style of Hope
- Conclusion: Four Characters in Search of a Philosophy
- Bibliography
- Index