Weaving together studies of eighteen ancient, medieval and modern
philosophers from Socrates to Judith Butler, Gideon Baker provides
a gripping genealogy of Western philosophy as a history of
questioning. As well as revealing the ancient in the modern, Baker
reflects on newer questions in Western philosophy, including: is
human being uniquely defined by questioning? And does the
negativity of questioning lead to nihilistic despair? Staying
faithful to his theme, Baker calls Western philosophy itself into
question, asking why questioning should be seen as central to the
true life. Is this not the same prejudice that led Socrates, at the
beginning of Western philosophy, to ask whether the unexamined life
is worth living?Far from being timeless, the questioning that lies
at the heart of Western philosophy is revealed to have a strange
and unsettling history that yet concerns us all.
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