Towards Continental Philosophy: Reason and Imagination in the Thought of Max Deutscher

320 Pages·2021·4.762 MB·English

by  Max Deutscher

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Towards Continental Philosophy
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Continental Philosophy in Austral-Asia
SeriesEditors
SimoneBignall,SeniorLecturer,IndigenousStrategyandEngagement,FlindersUniversity
P.DiegoBubbio,SeniorResearchFellowinPhilosophy,UniversityofWesternSydney
JoanneFaulkner,LecturerinPhilosophyandWomen’sandGenderStudies,Universityof
NewSouthWales
PaulPatton,ScientiaProfessor,UniversityofNewSouthWales
TheContinentalPhilosophyinAustral-Asiaseriestransportsatraditionofthoughtunder-
stoodasbelongingtooneplace–‘thecontinent’–toplacesthatweretransformedinits
image through colonisation: Australia, New Zealand, East Asia and South Asia. The
seriesaimstoexploreandshowcasethediversewaysinwhichEuropeanphilosophyhas
beeninterpretedandputtouseaccordingtothecontextsandquestionsparticulartolifein
evenfurther,strangerandmore‘exotic’continents.
TitlesintheSeries
YoungandFree:[Post]colonialOntologiesofChildhood,MemoryandHistoryinAustra-
lia,JoanneFaulkner
ThePhenomenologyofGravidity:ReframingtheMaternalinMerleau-Ponty,Levinas
andDerrida,JaneLymer
DeleuzeandtheHumanities:EastandWest,editedbyRosiBraidotti,KinYuenWong
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ser sthg UnsteottplhinegrMFoaoydesPolitics:Agriculture,DispossessionandSovereigntyinAustralia,Chris-
ir llA .sre ReimaginingSympathy,RecognisingDifference,MillicentChurcher
hsilb TowardsContinentalPhilosophy:ReasonandImaginationintheThoughtofMaxDeuts-
u cher,MaxDeutscher
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Towards Continental Philosophy
Reason and Imagination in the
Thought of Max Deutscher
Max Deutscher
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Foreword ix
Introduction:MappingPhilosophy’sContinentalDrift xiii
I:TruthinPhenomenology:Sartre,Ryle,Heidegger 1
1 Husserl’sTranscendentalSubjectivity:1980 3
2 Sartre’sStoryofConsciousness:2001 19
3 BeingPaulEdwards:2007 31
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vi Contents
IV:TruthinTextandContext:DerridaandFoucault 205
14 ChasingAfterModernity:SomeFriendlyWordsforthe
Postmodern:2007 207
15 Foucault’sMadmen:2014 223
16 ‘Iln’yapasdehors-texte’—OnceMore:2014 247
Bibliography 271
Permissions 275
IndexofTopicsandThemes 277
IndexofNames 281
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Acknowledgements
I wish to thank my partner Phyllis Perlstone—and all my family and
friends—for advice, encouragement and criticism during the whole process
ofpreparingthisbook.
Also I owe a great debt to the stimulus and ideas of the members of a
philosophydiscussiongroupwithwhichIaminvolved,andtoJanetChamp-
ness in particular, who suggested that I put together a collection of my
‘shorterpieces’.
It was with the sustained discussion, advice and criticisms of Joanne
FaulknerandSimoneBignall,theAustralianeditorsoftheRowman&Little-
field series on Continental philosophy in Australia, that the project took
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viii Acknowledgements
Cambridge University Press: “Simulacra, Feeling and Enactment” and
“Stories,PicturesandArguments”(Philosophy)
Parrhesia:“SartreandRyleonImagination”;“Foucault’sMadmen”
Crossroads(UniversityofQueensland):“BeingPaulEdwards”
Symposium: “Il n’y a pas de texte—once more” (Canadian Journal of
ContinentalPhilosophy)
Presses Universitaires de Rennes: “Vols vers la transcendance” (Se réo-
rienterdanslaphilosophie:autourdeMichèleLeDœuff)
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