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How to be Radical in Philosophy (Hardcover)
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How to be Radical in Philosophy (Hardcover)
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Radicality is at the very heart of philosophy. Sustaining this
lifeblood of progressive thinking means refashioning philosophy
constantly. It means engaging with the fundamental issues of
living, working, thinking and dying. Otherwise, philosophy loses
touch with what matters and dies away itself. This book presents
five very different ways philosophy can stay radically engaged: by
taking its stand on reason (like Descartes), experience (like
Locke), action (like Marx), analysis (like Adorno) or
self-criticism (like Heidegger). The result is a much-needed guide
for philosophers of all levels of experience, helping to identify
the best ways to be, and continue to be, radical. These five ways
of being radical are united by their extraordinarily audacious
approach to seeking out the roots of things and in engaging in
issues that matter to everyone. What can we know for certain? What
is our nature? What do we need to live a genuinely human existence?
As the book proceeds, another more disturbing connection stands
out: each path starts by identifying something disastrously wrong
with previous ways of doing philosophy, and thus heads out in a
completely different direction, but each ends up in the very same
confusion that it tried to escape. Maximilian de Gaynesford
explores this paradox: philosophy must be radical to be relevant
and connected, but radicalism threatens to undermine philosophy,
critically engaging with positions and arguments on both sides. The
book invites the reader on a fascinating journey, straightens out
the labyrinths of modern philosophy and sheds light on this Covid /
post-Trump age, where the stimulus to philosophize remains more
alive and active than ever.
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