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Idolizing the Idea
A Critical History of Modern Philosophy
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2019
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Ever since Plato made the case for the primacy of ideas over names, philosophy has tended to elevate the primacy of its ideas over the more common understanding and insights that are circulated in the names drawn upon by the community. Commencing with a critique of Plato’s original philosophical decision, Cristaudo takes up the argument put forward by Thomas Reid that modern philosophy has generally continued along the ‘way of ideas’ to its own detriment. His argument identifies the major paradigmatic developments in modern philosophy commencing from the new metaphysics pioneered by Descartes up until the analytic tradition and the anti-domination philosophies which now dominate social and political thought. Along the way he argues that the paradigmatic shifts and break-downs that have occurred in modern philosophy are due to being beholden to an inadequate sovereign idea, or small cluster of ideas, which contribute to the occlusion of important philosophical questions. In addition to chapters on Descartes, and the analytic tradition and anti-domination philosophies, his critical history of modern philosophy explores the core ideas of Locke, Berkeley, Malebranche, Locke, Hume, Reid, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger. The common thread uniting these disparate philosophies is what Cristaudo calls ‘ideaism’ (sic.). Rather than expanding our reasoning capacity, ‘ideaism’ contributes to philosophers imposing dictatorial principles or models that ultimately occlude and distort our understanding of our participative role within reality. Drawing upon thinkers such as Pascal, Vico, Hamann, Herder, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber and Eugen Rosensock-Huessy Cristaudo advances his argument by drawing upon the importance of encounter, dialogue, and a more philosophical anthropological and open approach to philosophy.
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2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0235-0
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978-1-7936-0236-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
329
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter One: Ideas and Names—A Philosophical Crossroad No access Pages 13 - 36
Chapter Two: Mechanistic Metaphysics, the “Way of Ideas,” and the Understanding’s Rule of the Imagination No access Pages 37 - 54
Chapter Three: Metaphysical Quandaries along the “Way of Ideas” No access Pages 55 - 68
Chapter Four: The Return of the Idea to the Everyday World No access Pages 69 - 84
Chapter Five: Transcendental, Subjective, and Objective Idealisms No access Pages 85 - 108
Chapter Six: Schelling on Thinking and Being No access Pages 109 - 140
Chapter Seven: Post-Hegelianism—or the Idea in Our Action in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy No access Pages 141 - 188
Chapter Eight: The Analytic Retreat to Reason and the Relative Splintering of the Idea No access Pages 189 - 218
Chapter Nine: Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology and Heidegger’s Being (an Idea in Spite of Itself) No access Pages 219 - 248
Chapter Ten: The Chosen Path of the Idea-isms of the 1960s No access Pages 249 - 292
