Essays in Philosophy: Modern

Stanley Rosen, Prof. Emer. in Philosophy from Boston University, is a heralded author of numerous works in ancient and medieval philosophy. Other works of Stanley Rosen published by St. Augustine’s Press: Plato’s Symposium, Plato’s Sophist, Plato’s Statesman, The Ancients and the Moderns, Nihilism, G.W.F. Hegel, The Limits of Analysis, The Question of Being, and Metaphysics in Ordinary Language.Martin Black completed his Ph.D. on Plato’s depiction of the Socratic turn under the supervision of Stanley Rosen at Boston University in 2009. He has published articles on Plato’s Symposium, the crisis of modernity, and self-knowledge, and is preparing a manuscript on the Socratic turn and a translation of several Platonic dialogues. He teaches ancient and medieval philosophy and the ancient Greek language and literature at Suffolk University.

• 1. Are We Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On? Against Reductionism2. Kant’s Doctrine of Perception3. Kant on Happiness4. Is There a Transition from Consciousness to Self-Consciousness?5. Review of Alexandre Kojève, Essai d’une histoire raisonnée de la philosophie paienne, Tome 1: Les Présocratiques 6. Negation and Dialectic7. Is Thinking Spontaneous?8. Contributions to “Contributions”9. Freedom and Reason10. Review of Steven Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity11. Paradigms of Philosophizing and the Future of Philosophy12. Back to the Beginning: Comment on Catherine Zuckert, Postmodern Platos13. The Absence of Structure14. Review of Carl Page, Philosophical Historicism and the Betrayal of First Philosophy 15. Philosophy in an Age of Postmodernism16. Being Unreasonable: Review of Richard Wolin, The Seduction of Unreason. The Intellectual Romance with Fascism From Nietzsche to Postmodernism17. Postmodernism and the Possibility of Critical Thinking18. Mind and Body in Nietzsche19. Thoughts on the Universal Homogeneous State20. The Identity of, and Difference between, Analytical and Continental Philosophy21. Hegel and Historicism22. Memory and Human Time23. Human Temporality in Plato, Husserl, and Heidegger24. Freedom and Spontaneity25. Remarks on Amartya Sen

This collection testifies to the remarkable range of Stanley Rosen’s learning and reflection in the history of philosophy, both ancient and modern. The publication of these essays, with all their speculative depth and richness, is truly a great philosophical benefit. It will throw new light on Rosen’s thinking on many topics in metaphysics and political philosophy and on his readings of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kojève, Strauss, and other figures. – Richard Velkley, Tulane University