Thing of This World A History of Continental Anti-Realism

Name: Thing of This World A History of Continental Anti-Realism
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ISBN: 9780810123809

ISBN-10: 0810123800

ISBN-13: 9780810123809

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lee Braver

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At a time when the analytic/continental split dominates contemporary philosophy, this ambitious work offers a careful and clear-minded way to bridge that divide. Combining conceptual rigor and clarity of prose with historical erudition, "A Thing of This World "shows how one of the standard issues of analytic philosophy--realism and anti-realism--has also been at the heart of continental philosophy. Using a framework derived from prominent analytic thinkers, Lee Braver traces the roots of anti-realism to Kant's idea that the mind actively organizes experience. He then shows in depth and in detail how this idea evolves through the works of Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida.…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 7/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 516
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.826
Language: English

Lee Braver is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author of a number of articles and two previous books, A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism and Heidegger's Later Writings: A Reader's Guide.



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Guide to Matrices


Introduction: The Kantian Root



Defining Realism



The Kantian Paradigm



Kant's Revolution



Hegel: The Truth of the Whole



Nietzsche's Will to Truth


Transition



Early Heidegger: Fundamental Ontology



The Heideggerian Paradigm



Later Heidegger: "The Great Turning Around"



Foucault's History of Truth


Post



Derrida


Conclusion: Anthropology from Two Kantian Points of View; or, A Tale of Two Kants


Notes


Bibliography


Index