Author : Arleen B. Dallery
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791404201
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)
Book Synopsis Crises in Continental Philosophy by : Arleen B. Dallery
Download or read book Crises in Continental Philosophy written by Arleen B. Dallery and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-10-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book punctuates the moments of crisis in continental thought from the foundational crisis of reason in Husserls call for a rigorous science of phenomenology to the current crisis of postmodernism and its rejection of Husserls metanarrative of history and rationality. The mediating links between these moments is the centrality of the epochal history of Being, the power of cultural and disciplinary practices, and the dispersal of meaning in the post-Husserlian and post-subjective philosophies of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and others. Included here are the thoughts of leading scholars who critically discuss Husserls analysis of the crisis of Western thought and the importance of the concepts of world in Husserls early writings. The authors analyze the deprivileging of philosophy as social critique through the text of Husserl, Habermas, Foucault, and recent feminist theory. They examine the end of the epistemological and morally autonomous subject in continental thought. Together, these thoughts articulate multiple points or moments of crisis without cure or end.