| Descartes to Derrida Contributor(s): Sedgwick, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0631201432 ISBN-13: 9780631201434 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $65.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2001 Annotation: This critical survey of issues in European philosophy offers detailed accounts of crucial texts by important thinkers. Sedgwick draws key ideas from these sources, analyzing the various relationships between them and linking them to central themes in philosophical enquiry, such as the nature of subjectivity, reason and experience, anti-humanism, and the nature of language. Areas explored include epistemology, metaphysics and ontology, ethics and politics. Aspects of the work of a broad range of thinkers is considered in detail, including Descartes, Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno and Horkheimer, Heidegger, Deleuze and Guatarri, Levinas, Derrida, Althusser, Foucault and Lyotard. This intriguing new work presents the complex ideas of European philosophy in a straightforward manner, and will be of interest to both introductory and advanced-level readers. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 190 |
| LCCN: 00057917 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.15 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume provides a critical survey of issues in European philosophy from Descartes to the present. |