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Jean-Luc Nancy - The Speculative Remark. (One of Hegel's Bons Mots).  - 9780804737135 - V9780804737135
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The Speculative Remark. (One of Hegel's Bons Mots).

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Description for The Speculative Remark. (One of Hegel's Bons Mots). Hardback. Nancy's The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the practice of philosophy away from system building to analysis of specific linguistic detail. Translator(s): Surprenant, Celine. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 20. Weight in Grams: 419.

This work, by one of the most innovative and challenging of contemporary thinkers, pivots on a Remark added by Hegel in 1831 to the second edition of his Science of Logic. As a model of close reading applied both to philosophical texts and the making of philosophical systems, The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the practice of philosophy away from system building to analysis of specific linguistic detail, with meticulous attention to etymological, philological, and rhetorical nuance.

Nancy uses his extended examination of the Remark to delineate certain overall strategies in several Hegelian texts that militate for ... Read more

The overview that emerges in the final chapter and epilogue constitutes a broad statement about Hegel's practice and significance, one nuanced by close attention to his deployment of rhetoric and linguistic play. The Speculative Remark thus furnishes a model for a theoretically aware approach to all systematic philosophy, while providing a significant historical contribution to the evolution of contemporary critical theory.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present Series
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804737135
SKU
V9780804737135
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About Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg. Stanford has published four of his books: Being Singular Plural (2000), The Muses (1996), The Birth to Presence (1993), and The Experience of Freedom (1993).

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