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Gideon Baker - Questioning: A New History of Western Philosophy, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Questioning: A New History of Western Philosophy

Av Gideon Baker

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Weaving together studies of eighteen ancient, medieval and modern philosophers from Socrates to Judith Butler, Gideon Baker provides a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of questioning. As well as revealing the ancient in the modern, Baker reflects on newer questions in Western philosophy, including: is human being uniquely defined by questioning? And does the negativity of questioning lead to nihilistic despair? Staying faithful to his theme, Baker calls Western philosophy itself into question, asking why questioning should be seen as central to the true life. Is this not the same prejudice that led Socrates, at the beginning of Western philosophy, to ask whether the unexamined life is worth living?Far from being timeless, the questioning that lies at the heart of Western philosophy is revealed to have a strange and unsettling history that yet concerns us all.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-07-06
  • Mått: 138 x 216 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 396 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 224
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781474498067
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Gideon Baker is Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. With a background in political philosophy, for many years his research has returned repeatedly to the question of nihilism, taking up the themes of political theology, messianism, the ancient Cynics and Nietzsche along the way. His most recent book is Nihilism and Philosophy: Nothingness, Truth and World (Bloomsbury, 2018).

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The very idea of a history of philosophy is questionable; if such a history is to be done at all, it should confront its own questionability. This is exactly what Gideon Baker has accomplished in this sharp, accessible and illuminating study, reopening key questions concerning self, politics, technology and being.

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