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Speculative Philosophy
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2009
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In this original and illuminating work, the reader is invited to approach philosophy as an activity that can instruct, delight, and move. On this view, philosophy can be seen as a key to human education, a mastery of humane letters, and a part of the repulic of the liberal arts. Embracing this approach to philosophy, Verene argues, involves moving beyond modern philosophy's analytical encounter with experience, one that emphasizes argument and criticism at the expense of the Socratic search for self-knowledge. Relying on insights from Vico and Hegel, Verene introduces a new sense of reason, one that sees the True as the whole and that connects reason to the ancient sense of speculation. Reflection and criticism are given their due, but the reorientation of philosophy toward the speculative grasp of the whole of things allows memory, imagination, and dialectical ingenuity to take on philosophical form. In the end, this work show how speculation, symbolic form, metaphor, poetry, and rhetoric are natural parts of philosophical thinking.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3659-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3661-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
150
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Preface No access
Introduction: On Philosophical Tetralogy No access
Chapter 01. The Canon of the Primal Scene in Speculative Philosophy No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 02. Philosophical Pragmatics No access Pages 13 - 22
Chapter 03. Putting Philosophical Questions (in)to Language No access Pages 23 - 34
Chapter 04. Absolute Knowledge and Philosophical Language No access Pages 35 - 46
Chapter 05. The Limits of Argument: Argument and Autobiography No access Pages 47 - 54
Chapter 06. Philosophical Aesthetics No access Pages 55 - 68
Chapter 07. Philosophical Memory No access Pages 69 - 82
Chapter 08. Culture, Categories, and the Imagination No access Pages 83 - 96
Chapter 09. Metaphysical Narration, Science, and Symbolic Form No access Pages 97 - 108
Chapter 10. Myth and Metaphysics No access Pages 109 - 126
