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The Birth of Theory
Andrew Cole
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Description for The Birth of Theory
Hardcover. Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory-Hegel did. This book presents an account of the origins and legacy of Hegel's dialectic as theory. It explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own dialectic. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory-Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole's The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel's dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own dialectic. While his contemporaries rejected premodern dialectic as outdated dogma, Hegel embraced both its emphasis on language as thought and its fascination with the categories of identity and difference, creating what we now recognize as theory, distinct ... Read more
Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theory-Hegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole's The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and lively account of the origins and legacy of Hegel's dialectic as theory. Cole explains how Hegel boldly broke from modern philosophy when he adopted medieval dialectical habits of thought to fashion his own dialectic. While his contemporaries rejected premodern dialectic as outdated dogma, Hegel embraced both its emphasis on language as thought and its fascination with the categories of identity and difference, creating what we now recognize as theory, distinct ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226135397
SKU
V9780226135397
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About Andrew Cole
Andrew Cole teaches in the Department of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer and coeditor of The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages: On the Unwritten History of Theory. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and Athens, Georgia.
Reviews for The Birth of Theory
"Cole mobilizes the force and joy of his philosophical intelligence-as only a theoretically inflected medievalist could-in the direction of the most persuasive account we now have of theory's origins. Brilliantly argued and beautifully written, this book shows us not only how theory was born but why it is still very much alive and, in Cole's hands, why it has such ... Read more