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- catalog abstract ""This book brings back the spirit of bold, imaginative, even outrageous theorizing into philosophy, and contains a series of examples of it, venturing playfully into quantum mechanics and political theory, psychoanalysis and environmental ethics, philosophy of language and sociology, without any attempt at "systematically exhausting" these disparate fields but rather using them as suggestive excuses and arenas for the display of intellectual creativity. There are numerous echoes among the various pieces, and between them and other works by the same author; but again these resonances are not systematized. The result is more to be seen as a collection of snapshots of an intellectual landscape than as a hierarchical regimentation of it."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12264859.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This book brings back the spirit of bold, imaginative, even outrageous theorizing into philosophy, and contains a series of examples of it, venturing playfully into quantum mechanics and political theory, psychoanalysis and environmental ethics, philosophy of language and sociology, without any attempt at "systematically exhausting" these disparate fields but rather using them as suggestive excuses and arenas for the display of intellectual creativity. There are numerous echoes among the various pieces, and between them and other works by the same author; but again these resonances are not systematized. The result is more to be seen as a collection of snapshots of an intellectual landscape than as a hierarchical regimentation of it."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Knowledge Versus Belief -- 2. A Strange Quantum World -- 3. Promissory Names -- 4. What Is Logic About? -- 5. Dialectical Logic at Work in the Elective Affinities: What We Can Learn From Goethe About Hegel -- 6. Discriminating From Within -- 7. The Poetics of (Philosophical) Interpretation -- 8. Kant's Sadism -- 9. Respect for Structure -- 10. The End of Analysis -- 11. Being-Idle -- 12. Taking Care of Ethical Relativism -- 13. Montaigne's Pre- and Post-Modern Notion of Subjectivity -- 14. An Oblique View -- 15. Beyond Tolerance? -- 16. An Answer to the Question "Liberating the Future From the Past? Liberating the Past From the Future" -- 17. Machiavelli, for Example -- 18. The Degradation of Talent.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-211).".
- catalog extent "vii, 211 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0792367022 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Topoi library ; v. 3".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,".
- catalog subject "195 21".
- catalog subject "B3613.B3853 E93 2001".
- catalog subject "Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Knowledge Versus Belief -- 2. A Strange Quantum World -- 3. Promissory Names -- 4. What Is Logic About? -- 5. Dialectical Logic at Work in the Elective Affinities: What We Can Learn From Goethe About Hegel -- 6. Discriminating From Within -- 7. The Poetics of (Philosophical) Interpretation -- 8. Kant's Sadism -- 9. Respect for Structure -- 10. The End of Analysis -- 11. Being-Idle -- 12. Taking Care of Ethical Relativism -- 13. Montaigne's Pre- and Post-Modern Notion of Subjectivity -- 14. An Oblique View -- 15. Beyond Tolerance? -- 16. An Answer to the Question "Liberating the Future From the Past? Liberating the Past From the Future" -- 17. Machiavelli, for Example -- 18. The Degradation of Talent.".
- catalog title "Exercises in constructive imagination / Ermanno Bencivenga.".
- catalog type "text".