Error, Illusion, Madness

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This book makes available in English the work of one of the most important Brazilian philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. First published in 2004, Error, Illusion, Madness is an original contribution to the debate about the nature and role of the subject and its forms of expression. In a context where the category of the subject was being at once dismissed by structuralist and post-structuralist thinkers and sidelined by the intersubjective turn of critical theory, Bento Prado Jr.’s book represented a unique intellectual intervention. He mobilized authors as diverse as Wittgenstein and Deleuze to formulate a notion of the subject as both a critique of identity and an affirmation of difference, a notion that dismantled the foundational character usually associated with this category. In this way Bento Prado Jr. opened up a new and distinctive kind of critical thinking that emphasized subjectivity while avoiding both foundationalism and relativism. This important book will be of great interest to those working in philosophy, critical theory, cultural theory, and Latin American studies. Cover Title page Copyright page Contents Publisher’s Note Foreword No Proper Place of Its Own Vladimir Safatle Is there such a thing as a point of view of the periphery? A common place without a proper grammar Persuasion Phusis Preface 1 Error, Illusion, Madness I II III IV Error, Illusion, Madness Commentary by Arley Ramos Moreno 2 Descartes and the Last Wittgenstein The Dream Argument Revisited I II III IV 3 Wittgenstein Culture and Value I II III IV 4 The Plane of Immanence and Life I II III Acknowledgments Translator’s note Values and the Plane of Immanence Commentary by Arley Ramos Moreno 5 Relativism as a Counterpoint I II III IV Bento Prado Jr.’s Lecture on Relativism Commentary by Sérgio Cardoso Neither Apel nor Rorty Commentary by Paulo Eduardo Arantes 6 On Deleuze An Interview 7 Bergson, 110 Years Later Notes Notes to Foreword Notes to Preface Notes to chapter 1 Notes to commentary to chapter 1 Notes to chapter 2 Notes to chapter 3 Notes to chapter 4 Notes to commentary to chapter 4 Notes to chapter 5 Notes to first commentary to chapter 5 Notes to second commentary to chapter 5 Notes to chapter 6 Notes to chapter 7 Bibliography Extras Index EULA