Philosophy's artful conversation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rodowick, David Norman
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A permanent state of suspension or deferment
  • How theory became history
  • "Philosophy is not one of the natural sciences"
  • "I will teach you differences"
  • An assembling of reminders
  • ". . . a complicated network of similarities, overlapping and criss-crossing"
  • Gedankenwegen: on import and interpretation
  • "Of which we cannot speak . . .": philosophy and the humanities
  • What is (film) philosophy?
  • Order out of chaos
  • Idea, image, and intuition
  • The world, time
  • The ordinary necessity of philosophy
  • "Art now exists in the condition of philosophy"
  • Falling in love with the world
  • Ontology and desire, or a moving response to skepticism
  • Automatism and the declaration of existence in time
  • Ethical practices of the ordinary
  • Perfectionism as self-disobedience
  • Comedy and community
  • A digression on difference and interpretation
  • Perfectionism's ironic transport
  • An elegy for theory.