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Dialectic and Dialogue
Dmitri Nikulin
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Description for Dialectic and Dialogue
Hardback. This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and, beginning with the ancient Greeks and moving through modern philosophy, traces a historical and systematic relation between the two. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 399.
This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses and attain thinkable being, to Cusanus, to modern philosophers—Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher and Gadamer, for whom dialectic becomes the driving force behind the constitution of a rational philosophical system. Conceived as a logical enterprise, dialectic strives to liberate itself from dialogue, which it views as merely accidental and even disruptive of thought, in order to become a systematic or scientific method. The Cartesian autonomous and universal yet ... Read more
This book considers the emergence of dialectic out of the spirit of dialogue and traces the relation between the two. It moves from Plato, for whom dialectic is necessary to destroy incorrect theses and attain thinkable being, to Cusanus, to modern philosophers—Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher and Gadamer, for whom dialectic becomes the driving force behind the constitution of a rational philosophical system. Conceived as a logical enterprise, dialectic strives to liberate itself from dialogue, which it views as merely accidental and even disruptive of thought, in order to become a systematic or scientific method. The Cartesian autonomous and universal yet ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
183
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804770156
SKU
V9780804770156
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About Dmitri Nikulin
Dmitri Nikulin is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York. His most recent books are Matter, Imagination and Geometry: Ontology, Natural Philosophy and Mathematics in Plotinus, Proclus, and Descartes (2002), and On Dialogue (2006).
Reviews for Dialectic and Dialogue
"Nikulin's newest book on dialogue and dialectics displays a beautiful combination of great scholarship, fine storytelling, and innovative ideas."
Ágnes Heller "Dialectic and Dialogue is a very important work, potentially a classic. It is stimulating throughout, as well as original in conception and execution—the first study to bring together these two signal concepts."
Mark Roche "This book is ... Read more
Ágnes Heller "Dialectic and Dialogue is a very important work, potentially a classic. It is stimulating throughout, as well as original in conception and execution—the first study to bring together these two signal concepts."
Mark Roche "This book is ... Read more