Why Philosophize?

Name: Why Philosophize?
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ISBN: 9780745670737

ISBN-10: 0745670733

ISBN-13: 9780745670737

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jean-Francois Lyotard

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Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean–François Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studies. The circumstances obliged him to be both clear and concise: at the same time, his lectures offer a profound and far–reaching meditation on how essential it is to philosophize in a world where philosophy often seems irrelevant, outdated, or inconclusive. Lyotard begins by drawing on Plato, Proust and Lacan to show that philosophy is a never–ending desire – for wisdom, for the ‘other’. In the second lecture he draws on Heraclitus and Hegel to explore the close relation between philosophy and history: the same restlessness, the same…

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 9/6/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 100
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English