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Dialectics Beyond Dialectics

By Malgorzata Kowalska , Cain Elliott , Jan Burzynski

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang Pub Inc
Year
2015
ISBN
3631626789, 9783631626788
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1479571 bytes)
Series
Modernity in Question
Pages
273\276
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-05-29 22:49:25
Modern Philosophy Politics Social Sciences History

Description

&ltI>Dialectics beyond Dialectics &lt/I>is a study of contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida. It analyses, on the first level of generalization, the decomposition of Hegelianism understood as &ltI>philosophy of totality&lt/I>. Many French philosophers of the 20&ltSUP>th&lt/SUP> century deconstruct Hegelian dialectics and harshly criticize the very idea of totality as either dangerous or impossible. The thesis of the book is that, on doing so, they do not really break with dialectics, but transform it. On the second level of generalization, the issue of the book is modernity and the thesis is that transformations of dialectics reveal transformations of modern consciousness which - despite hasty declarations on the &ltI>end of modernity &lt/I>- still remains ours.

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