Philosophy's Artful Conversation /
Theory has been an embattled discourse in the academy for decades. But now it faces a serious challenge from those who want to model the analytical methods of all scholarly disciplines on the natural sciences. What is urgently needed, says D. N. Rodowick, is a revitalized concept of theory that can...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- In Place of Beginning Again
- 1. A Permanent State of Suspension or Deferment
- 2. How Theory Became History
- 3. "Philosophy is not one of the natural sciences"
- 4 "I will teach you diff erences"
- 5. An Assembling of Reminders
- 6. "... a complicated network of similarities overlapping and criss- crossing"
- 7. Gedankenwegen: On Import and Interpretation
- 8. "Of which we cannot speak ...": Philosophy and the Humanities
- 9. What is (Film) Philosophy?
- 10. Order Out of Chaos
- 11. Idea, Image, and Intuition
- 12. The World, Time
- 13. The Ordinary Necessity of Philosophy
- 14. "Art now exists in the condition of philosophy"
- 15. Falling in Love with the World
- 16. Ontology and Desire, or a Moving Response to Skepticism
- 17. Automatism and the Declaration of Existence in Time
- 18. Ethical Practices of the Ordinary
- 19. Perfectionism as Self- Disobedience
- 20. Comedy and Community
- 21. A Digression on Difference and Interpretation
- 22. Perfectionism's Ironic Transport
- 23. An Elegy for Theory
- Acknowledgments
- Index