{"product_id":"9780792367024","title":"Topoi Library","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTopoi Library\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eBencivenga, Ermanno\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilosophy in this century has often self-consciously presented  itself as aiming at the destruction or deconstruction of the  philosophical tradition or even of theorizing as such. The basis for  such self-description may well be a deep-seated anxiety about death;  but whatever its grounds, the procession of distinguished  intellectuals who seem mostly concerned with who gets to turn off the  light on philosophy on his\/her way out is one main reason why  philosophy seems to have lost its grip on public opinion and public  policy. Which is ironical, because there is often considerable  constructive work going on under the pretence of all this  `destruction', but the superficial rhetoric has more currency and  impact than the substance of that work. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2000-12-31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780792367024\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-010-0952-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 211\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265506103436,"sku":"9780792367024","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780792367024.jpg?v=1770781419","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780792367024","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}