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Additional Authors

Seigel, Jerrold E.

Description

xix, 278 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Trying to grasp the history of contemporary thought brings special opportunities and problems, providing a chance to participate in current intellectual life, but posing especially sharply the question about whether and how scholarship can distinguish itself from partisanship.
The essays in this collection, taken from the Journal of History of Ideas, take sides on the issues they address, but they all proceed on the assumption that the past, even the recent past, must be understood and learned from before it can be turned to present uses.
This twelfth volume in the Library of the History of Ideas includes discussions of a wide range of thinkers, from Nietzsche, Durkheim and Freud to Hans-Georg Gadamer and Werner Blumenberg, but it is unified by an attention to specific themes, notably individuals and their relations to society; the encounter between liberalism and movements of social reform; the evolution of psychology; and the relation between reason and metaphor in the interpretation of culture.

Series Statement

Library of the history of ideas, 1050-1053 ; v. 12

Uniform Title

Library of the history of ideas ; v. 12.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Introduction / Jerrold Seigel -- I. The Meanings of "Individualism" / Steven Lukes -- II. Who is the Ubermensch? Time, Truth and Woman in Nietzsche / Keith Ansell-Pearson -- III. Autonomy and Personality in Durkheim: An Essay on Content and Method / Jerrold Seigel -- IV. Durkheim's Individual in Society: A Sacred Marriage? / Mark S. Cladis -- V. J. A. Hobson as a New Liberal Theorist: Some Aspects of his Social Thought until 1914 / Michael Freeden -- VI. Sociability and Social Conflict in George Herbert Mead's Interactionism, 1900-1919 / Andrew Feffer -- VII. Henry Adams, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and the Course of History / Keith R. Burich -- VIII. The Transformation of Spengler's Philosophy of World History / John Farrenkopf -- IX. Gramsci's Interpretation of Fascism / Walter L. Adamson -- X. Charcot's Response to Freud's Rebellion / Toby Gelfand -- XI. Bergson and Jung / Pete A. K. Gunter -- XII. Wittgenstein's "Wonderful Life" / Peter C. John.
XIII. Hans-Georg Gadamer's "Correction" of Heidegger / Walter Lammi -- XIV. Metaphors for Mankind: The Development of Hans Blumenberg's Anthropological Metaphorology / David Adams.

ISBN

1878822306 (alk. paper) :

LCCN

93041061

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries