F. H. Bradley and the History of Philosophy

Ben Woodard is an affiliated fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin Germany. He has published numerous texts on the relation between naturalism and idealism as well as the history, philosophy, and politics of biology. He is the author of Schelling's Naturalism: Motion, Space and the Volition of Thought (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Blood and Dull InkPart I – Carving a World without Joints1. A Tattered World Contained: Hegel, Meillassoux, and Bradley2. Starting Philosophy Over Again: Bradley, James, and Bergson3. Divides and Returns: Sellars and the Complication of Sense4. Mass Terms and Metaphysics: Analytic Thought and BradleyPart II – Feeling One’s Way5. Ideal and Finite Selves: Idealism and Temporality6. Feeling the Empirical: Bradley against Whitehead7. Beetles and Words: Bradley and Wittgenstein’s Philosophical PsychologyConclusion: Idealism Without CaricatureWorks by BradleyWorks on BradleyOther Texts

F.H. Bradley and the History of Philosophy is more than just a rescue-attempt of an underappreciated philosopher; it is more than just a demolition-job on the (absurd) analytic-continental divide; it is a creative, cogent interrogation of our intellectual traditions and habits in the name of collectives, paracoherent logics, non-standard compositions and, ultimately, the experience of thinking.