From Kant to Lévi-Strauss

The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2002
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-1506-3 (ISBN)

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This introductory textbook provides students and other readers with an accessible basic guide to key figures in 'The Tradition of Critique' - critical post-Enlightenment European thinking. The intellectual tradition covered by the book is broadly the Continental philosophy and theory which has had a significant impact on many theoretical innovations in the humanities and social sciences. Yet many students and non-philosophers have little understanding of the tradition on which such thinking draws. The book therefore covers those thinkers whose work serves as the background for many contemporary thinkers such as Derrida, Foucault and Habermas.There are individual chapters on: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lukacs, Adorno and Horkheimer, Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Arendt and Levi-Strauss. Each chapter offers some contextualisation, presents and explains key concepts, explains the thinker's relevance to an ongoing tradition and offers suggestions for further reading.The volume provides readers with sufficient background knowledge to study more contemporary theorists whose work draws on, or assumes knowledge of, these earlier or more foundational thinkers. Thus the book is aimed specifically at students and scholars who do not have a philosophical training and who study literary, cultural, social or political theorists who engage with this European intellectual tradition.Features* Introduces 15 key figures in modern Western philosophy* Enables students to study individual thinkers from one handy reference resource* Explains the relevance of philosophical tradition to contemporary thought* Accessible to beginners and non-philosophers* Explains the main ideas and concepts which contemporary thinkers address* Oriented to the philosophical, social and political aspects of the critical tradition

Jon Simons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University who has broad expertise in contemporary critical theory. He is the author of Foucault and the Political (Routledge, 1995) and the editor of and contributor to From Kant to Lévi-Strauss: The Background to Contemporary Critical Theory and Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said (Edinburgh University Press, 2002 & 2004 respectively).

Introduction by Jon Simons; 1. Kant by Jon Simons; 2 Hegel by Matt F. Connell; 3. Marx by Simon Tormey; 4. Nietzsche by Jon Simons; 5. Weber by John Ellis and Jon Simons; 6. Freud by Richard King; 7. Lukacs by Stuart Sim; 8. Adorno and Horkheimer by Matt F. Connell; 9. Husserl by William Hutson; 10. Heidegger by David Woods; 11. Gadamer by Nicholas Smith; 12. Wittgenstein by Simon Tormey; 13. Arendt by Richard King; 14. Levi-Strauss by Chris Johnson.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.9.2002
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-7486-1506-7 / 0748615067
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-1506-3 / 9780748615063
Zustand	Neuware