Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English - Rilegato

Re, Jonathan

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ISBN 10: 0300247362 ISBN 13: 9780300247367

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2019

Riassunto

An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures

Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that 'philosophy should be written like poetry.' But philosophy has often been presented more prosaically as a long trudge through canonical authors and great works. But what, Jonathan Rée asks, if we instead saw the history of philosophy as a haphazard series of unmapped forest paths, a mass of individual stories showing endurance, inventiveness, bewilderment, anxiety, impatience, and good humor?
 
Here, Jonathan Rée brilliantly retells this history, covering such figures as Descartes, Locke, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Mill, James, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Sartre. But he also includes authors not usually associated with philosophy, such as William Hazlitt, George Eliot, Darwin, and W. H. Auden. Above all, he uncovers dozens of unremembered figures'puritans, revolutionaries, pantheists, feminists, nihilists, socialists, and scientists'who were passionate and active readers of philosophy, and often authors themselves. Breaking away from high-altitude narratives, he shows how philosophy finds its way into ordinary lives, enriching and transforming them in unexpected ways.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Jonathan Rée is a freelance philosopher and historian whose previous books include Proletarian Philosophers, Philosophical Tales and I See a Voice. He lives in London and Oxford.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0300247362
• ISBN 13: 9780300247367
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 746
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile