Death of Philosophy

Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel is director of research in the Doctoral School of Philosophy at the Sorbonne. She specializes in the history of philosophy, the philosophy of science, and aesthetics and has published five books in French. Richard A. Lynch is instructor of philosophy at DePauw University and founder of the Foucault Circle. He has also translated works by Michel Foucault and Francois Ewald.

• Acknowledgments Translator's Note Introduction Part I. The End of Philosophy, or the Paradoxes of Speaking 1. Skeptical and Scientific "Post-philosophy" 2. "Saying and the Said": Two Paradigms for the Same Subject 3. The Antispeculative View: Habermas as an Example 4. Kant's Shadow in the Current Philosophical Landscape Part II. Challenging the "Death of Philosophy": The Reflexive A Priori 5. A Definition of the Model: Scientific Learning and Philosophical Knowledge 6. The Model of Self-reference's Consistency 7. The Model's Fecundity 8. Beyond the Death of Philosophy Part III. The End of Philosophy in Perspective: The Source of the Reflexive Deficit 9. The "Race to Reference" 10. The Tension Between Reference and Self-reference in the Kantian System 11. Helmholtz's Choice as a Choice for Reference: The Naturalization of Critique 12. Critique: A Positivist Theory of Knowledge or Existential Ontology? 13. Questioning the History of Philosophy Conclusion Bibliography Notes

Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel provides the first extended analysis of the theme of the end, or 'death,' of philosophy, which has been on the agenda since at least the early nineteenth century. Thomas-Fogiel, one of our most promising young French philosophers, writes clearly, persuasively, and insightfully. She ranges widely over both continental and analytic sources and concentrates well on arguments, weighing and evaluating different interpretations of major figures. This is an important book. -- Tom Rockmore, Duquesne University, author of Kant and Idealism