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CHANGING THE SUBJECT CHANGING THE SUBJECT Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno RAYMOND GEUSS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON, ENGLAND | 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Ameri ca First Printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Geuss, Raymond, author. Title: Changing the subject : philosophy from Socrates to Adorno / Raymond Geuss. Description: Cambridge, Mass a chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017010499 | ISBN 9780674545724 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Reasoning. | Questioning. | Philosophy—H istory. Classification: LCC BC177 .G48 2017 | DDC 100—d c23 LC rec ord available at https://l ccn . loc . gov / 2017010499 Jacket design: Graciela Galup Jacket background: Getty Images hilaritatis causa Endlich! Die Freiheit! Die Harpunen fliegen. Der Regenbogen lagert in den Straßen Nur noch vom fernen Summen der Riesenbienen unterhöhlt. Alle verlieren alles, das sie, ach wie oft, vergeblich überflogen hatte. . . . At last! Freedom! The harpoons fly. The rainbow is stockpiled In the streets Only hollowed out from below By the distant humming of huge bees Anything that had ever flown, oh how often, in vain, over anyone: every one loses all of that. — meret oppenheim, Husch, husch, der schönste Vokal entleert sich (1933)

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Ask a question and it is reasonable to expect an answer or a confession of ignorance. But a philosopher may defy expectations. Confronted by a standard question arising from a normal way of viewing the world, a philosopher may reply that the question is misguided, that to continue asking it is, at t

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CHANGING THE SUBJECT CHANGING THE SUBJECT Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno RAYMOND GEUSS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS LONDON, ENGLAND | 2017 Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Ameri ca First Printing Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Geuss, Raymond, author. Title: Changing the subject : philosophy from Socrates to Adorno / Raymond Geuss. Description: Cambridge, Mass a chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017010499 | ISBN 9780674545724 (alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Reasoning. | Questioning. | Philosophy—H istory. Classification: LCC BC177 .G48 2017 | DDC 100—d c23 LC rec ord available at https://l ccn . loc . gov / 2017010499 Jacket design: Graciela Galup Jacket background: Getty Images hilaritatis causa Endlich! Die Freiheit! Die Harpunen fliegen. Der Regenbogen lagert in den Straßen Nur noch vom fernen Summen der Riesenbienen unterhöhlt. Alle verlieren alles, das sie, ach wie oft, vergeblich überflogen hatte. . . . At last! Freedom! The harpoons fly. The rainbow is stockpiled In the streets Only hollowed out from below By the distant humming of huge bees Anything that had ever flown, oh how often, in vain, over anyone: every one loses all of that. — meret oppenheim, Husch, husch, der schönste Vokal entleert sich (1933)

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Ask a question and it is reasonable to expect an answer or a confession of ignorance. But a philosopher may defy expectations. Confronted by a standard question arising from a normal way of viewing the world, a philosopher may reply that the question is misguided, that to continue asking it is, at t

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