Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) Beyond Continental Philosophy

Name: Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible) Beyond Continental Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780231141987

ISBN-10: 023114198X

ISBN-13: 9780231141987

Edition: N/A

Authors: Dorothea Olkowski

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The Universalproposes a radically new philosophical system that moves from ontology to ethics. Drawing on the work of De Beauvoir, Sartre, and Le Doeuff, among others, and addressing a range of topics from the Asian sex trade to late capitalism, quantum gravity, and Merleau-Ponty's views on cinema, Dorothea Olkowski stretches the mathematical, political, epistemological, and aesthetic limits of continental philosophy and introduces a new perspective on political structures. Straddling a course between formalism and conventionalism, Olkowski develops the concept of an ontological unconscious that arises from our "sensible" relation to the world-the information we absorb and emit that…

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List price: $50.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/19/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.50" wide x 6.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English




Philosophy and the limits of difference



'A place of love and mystery'



'Love and hatred'



'Under western eyes'



Passive restraint



In the realm of the sensible