The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy.

The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy.

Lebensphilosophie, central to nineteenth-century philosophical thought, is concerned with the meaning, value and purpose of life. In this much-needed study, historical lebensphilosophie is returned to the core of philosophical investigations and revealed in the contemporary ascendency of 'life&...

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Main Author: Campbell, Scott
Other Authors: Bruno, Paul W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.
Series:Bloomsbury studies in philosophy.
Subjects:
Life.
Life
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Table of Contents:
  • Notes of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors' Introduction Scott M. Campbell and Paul W. Bruno
  • Part I: Life-Contexts in Dilthey, Nietzsche, and Bergson
  • 1. Dilthey as a Philosopher of Life Rudolf A. Makkreel
  • 2. Biological and Historical Life: Heidegger between Levinas and Dilthey Eric Nelson
  • 3. Your Money or Your Life: Using Nietzsche's Critique of Mechanism and Platonism to Defend the Biosphere Ronnie Hawkins
  • 4. The Comprehensive Meaning of Life in Bergson Florence Caeymaex
  • Part II: Converging Technologies
  • 5. Information, Self-Reference, and the Magical Realism of "Life" H. Peter Steeves
  • 6. The Artificialization of Life: Designing Self-Organization Jean-Pierre Dupuy
  • 7. eLife: From Biology to Technology and Back Again Jos de Mul
  • 8. Philosophy of Life in the Age of Information: Seinsgeschichte and the Task of "An Ontology of Ourselves" Charles Bonner
  • Part III: Life, Power, Politics
  • 9. "Without Inside or Outside": Nietzsche, Pluralism and the Problem of the Unity of Experience Michael J. O'Neill
  • 10. Anachronism and Powerlessness: An Essay on Postmodernism Leonard Lawlor
  • 11. Taking Hold of Life: Liberal Eugenics, Autonomy, and Biopower Serena Parekh
  • Part IV: Philosophies of Life
  • 12. The Care of the Self and The Gift of Death: Foucault and Derrida on Learning How to Live Edward McGushin
  • 13. The Tragic Sense of Life in Heidegger's Readings of Antigone Scott M. Campbell
  • 14. Living the Pyrrhonian Way Stephen Clark
  • 15. Intuition as the Business of Philosophy: Wittgenstein and Philosophy's Turn to Life Neil Turnbull
  • 16. On Life and Desire: Kant, Lewontin, and Girard Paul Bruno
  • 17. The Wisdom of Emotions Jason Howard
  • 18. History in the Service of Life: Nietzsche's Genealogy Allison Merrick
  • Index

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