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In this critical history of modern philosophy, Cristaudo develops the argument put forward by Thomas Reid that modern philosophy has generally continued along the ‘way of ideas’ to its own detriment. Its ever-shifting dominant ideas contribute to capturing and imprisoning rather than expands our thinking.
Sommario
Chapter 1 Ideas and Names - A Philosophical Crossroad
Chapter 2 Mechanistic Metaphysics, "Way of Ideas", and the Understanding's Rule of the Imagination
Chapter 3 Metaphysical Quandaries along the "Way of Ideas"
Chapter 4: The Return of the Idea to the Everyday World
Chapter 5 Transcendental, Subjective, and Objective Idealisms: A Matter of Absolutes
Chapter 6 Schelling on Thinking and Being: An Absolute to End all Absolutes
Chapter 7 Post-Hegelianism - or the Idea in Our Action in 19th Century Philosophy
Chapter 8 The Analytic Retreat to Reason and The Relative Splintering of the Idea
Chapter 9 Husserl's Idea of Phenomenology and Heidegger's Being (an Idea in Spite of Itself)
Chapter 10 The Chosen Path of the Idea(isms) of the 60s: Anti-domination, Limitless Freedom and the Politics and Ethics of the Impossible
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Wayne Cristaudo is professor of political science at Charles Darwin University.
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In this critical history of modern philosophy, Cristaudo develops the argument put forward by Thomas Reid that modern philosophy has generally continued along the ‘way of ideas’ to its own detriment. Its ever-shifting dominant ideas contribute to capturing and imprisoning rather than expands our thinking.
