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Thinking about Thinking: What Kind of Conversation Is Philosophy?
Contributor(s): Peperzak, Adriaan T. (Author)
ISBN: 0823240185     ISBN-13: 9780823240180
Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Religious
- Religion | Philosophy
- Philosophy | Methodology
Dewey: 101
LCCN: 2011018516
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 222 pages
 
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Thinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and thought.

Without forgetting the logical and methodological conditions of systematic thought, the author insists on the intimate connections that tie all philosophical texts and conversations to the lives from which they emerge. As product of an individual thinker, who, thanks to individual teachers, has been familiarized with particular traditions of a particular culture, each philosophy is unique. If it is a good one, it is also revealing for many--perhaps even for all--other philosophers. At the same time, all thinking is addressed to individual interlocutors, each of whom responds to it by
transforming it into a different philosophy. This fact invites us to explore the dialogical dimension of thinking, which, in turn, refers us to the communitarian and historical contexts from which solitude, as well as solidarity, competition, alliances, and friendships in thought, emerge.

Contributor Bio(s): Peperzak, Adriaan T.: - Adriaan T. Peperzak holds the Arthur J. Schmitt Chair of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. Among his books are Platonic Transformations: With and After Hegel, Heidegger, and Levinas; Beyond: The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas; Modern Freedom; The Quest for Meaning: Friends of Wisdom from Plato to Levinas (Fordham); and Thinking: From Solitude to Dialogue and Contemplation (Fordham).