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22%OFFRoy Brand - LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida - 9780231160445 - V9780231160445
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LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida

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Description for LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 186 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274. The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida. 160 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPX. Dimension: 147 x 186 x 18. Weight: 274.
Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet these thinkers all share a common method of practicing philosophy-not as a detached, intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art. What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231160445
SKU
V9780231160445
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About Roy Brand
Roy Brand is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts at Tel Aviv University; he also founded and served as Director and Chief Curator of Yaffo 23, a center for art and culture in downtown Jerusalem. He is the author of LoveKnowledge: The ... Read more

Reviews for LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida
Roy Brand steps away from the technicalities that populate the history of philosophy as an academic discipline, just as he shows himself a truly sanguine observer who stays above the fray of the different and diverging currents and debates of our days. What results is an at once greatly informative and deeply personal book, with chapters that serve as vignettes ... Read more

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