- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Stanford University Press; 1 edition (Dec 20 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0804753547
- ISBN-13: 978-0804753548
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.6 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
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#578,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #18 in Books > Nonfiction > Philosophy > Movements > Structuralism
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Book Description
Why is it that the modern conception of literature begins with one of the worst writers of the philosophical tradition? Such is the paradoxical question that lies at the heart of Jean-Luc Nancy's highly original and now-classic study of the role of language in the critical philosophy of Kant. While Kant did not turn his attention very often to the philosophy of language, Nancy demonstrates to what extent he was anything but oblivious to it. He shows, in fact, that the question of philosophical style, of how to write critical philosophy, goes to the core of Kant's attempt to articulate the limits, once and for all, that would establish human reason in its autonomy and freedom. He also shows how this properly philosophical program, the very pinnacle of the Enlightenment, leads Kant to posit literature as its other by way of what is here called the syncope, and how this other of philosophy, entirely its product, cannot be said to exist outside of metaphysics in its accomplishment. This subtle, unprecedented reading of Kant demonstrates the continued importance of reflection on the relation between philosophy and literature, indeed, why any commitment to Enlightenment must consider and confront this partition anew.
About the Author
Jean-Luc Nancy is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Stanford has published English translations of a number of his works, including The Muses (1996), The Experience of Freedom (1993), The Birth to Presence (1993), Being Singular Plural (2000), The Speculative Remark (2001), and A Finite Thinking (2003).
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Discourse of the Syncope, Jan 29 2008
By L. Magee "Ouups!" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Discourse of the Syncope: Logodaedalus (Paperback)
Excellent possibilities in respect of the question of literature and Kant which leaves one particular aporia to be explored for the future. Nancy once agan knows how to avoid the crunch of his work's non-trajectory.
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