LoveKnowledge: The Life of Philosophy from Socrates to Derrida
Roy Brand
Abstract
Since its inception, philosophy has struggled to perfect individual understanding through discussion and dialogue based in personal, poetic, or dramatic investigation. The positions of such philosophers as Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Derrida differ in almost every respect, yet these thinkers all share a common method of practicing philosophy—not as a detached, intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art. What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses ... More
Keywords: Socrates, Spinoza, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, practicing philosophy, love, knowledge
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231160445 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231160445.001.0001 |
