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Post-Cartesian Meditations - An Essay in Dialectical Phenomenology (Paperback, New Ed)
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Post-Cartesian Meditations - An Essay in Dialectical Phenomenology (Paperback, New Ed)
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Although this book derives its inspiration and model from
Descartes' Meditations and Husserl's Cartesian Meditations, it
attempts to overcome Cartesianism conceived as individualistic,
reflective, apodictic, presuppositionless self-recovery. Instead,
contends Professor Marsh, the isolated, individualistic, brougeois
ego gives way to the social, communal, post-bourgeois self: wordly,
linguistic, historical, practical, and critical. The book attempts
to overcome Cartesianism both in content and in form. In content,
Marsh argues, the social self replaces the isolated ego; this he
attempts to establish through a series of chapters progressively
expanding their scope and social context. Beginning with an
emphasis on individual perception, thought, and freedom, and moving
through reflections on knowledge of the other, practical engagments
with the other, and hermeneutics, he concludes with critiques of
the psychological and social unconscious. The result is not a
rejection of individual perception, reflection, and freedom, but
their sublation within community, tradition, and history. For Marsh
the authentic individual is the social individual, the
individual-in-community. This book not only inscribes a
progressively expanding circle, but also moves in a circle. It
begins with a reflection on the contemporary experience of
alientation and history of philosophy, ascends in the next several
chapters to considering the perceptual, cognitive, free, social
self, and then descends in the last chapter to further discussion
of this historical starting points in this practical and
philosophical aspects. Dialectical phenomenology as method bends
back on itself to reflect in a manner both critical and redemptive
on its own starting point and genesis. Post-Cartesian Meditations
obviously situates itself withing the modernism/post-modernism
debate being carried on by Ricoeur and Derrida, Habermas and
Foucault, Searle and Rorty, Bernstein and Caputo. Like
post-modernism, the book is critical of naive Cartesian presence,
the excesses of technological rationality, the pathology of
modernity, the irrationality of bourgeois society. Unlike
post-modernism, however, the book argues for a socially mediated
self, the legitimacy of technology in contrast to technocracy, the
critical redemption of modernity, a dialectical rather than a
rejectionistic overcoming of capitalism. Rich in insight,
suggestion, and argumentation, this book has much to offer students
and instructors of philosophy generally, but will be particularly
useful to those interested in phenomenological developments, or a
Marxist critique of capitalism as a way of life influencing modern
philosophical thought.
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