Questioning: A New History of Western Philosophy

Gideon Baker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9806-7 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Gideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. From Socrates to Judith Butler, he reveals the ancient in the modern and reflects on newer questions, like: is human being uniquely defined by questioning? And does the negativity of questioning lead to nihilistic despair? Staying faithful to his theme, Baker calls Western philosophy itself into question, asking why questioning should be seen as central to the true life. Is this not the same prejudice that led Socrates, at the beginning of Western philosophy, to ask whether the unexamined life is worth living? Far from being timeless, the questioning that lies at the heart of Western philosophy has a strange and unsettling history that concerns us all.

Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. With a background in political philosophy, for many years his research has returned repeatedly to the question of nihilism, taking up the themes of political theology, messianism, the ancient Cynics and Nietzsche along the way. His most recent book is Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Introduction

Socrates
Diogenes
Plato
Aristotle
Epicurus
Plotinus
Augustine
Duns Scotus
Eckhart
Spinoza
Kant
Kierkegaard
Nietzsche
Heidegger
Weil
Arendt
Badiou
Butler

GlossesReferences

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2022
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-4744-9806-X / 147449806X
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-9806-7 / 9781474498067
Zustand	Neuware