In this rich collection of philosophical writings, Stanley Rosen
addresses a wide range of topics -from eros, poetry, and freedom to
problems like negation and the epistemological status of sense
perception. Though diverse in subject, Rosen's essays share two
unifying principles: there can be no legitimate separation of
textual hermeneutics from philosophical analysis, and philosophical
investigation must be oriented in terms of everyday language and
experience, although it cannot simply remain within these confines.
Ordinary experience provides a minimal criterion for the assessment
of extraordinary discourses, Rosen argues, and without such a
criterion we would have no basis for evaluating conflicting
discourses: philosophy would give way to poetry.
Philosophical problems are not so deeply embedded in a specific
historical context that they cannot be restated in terms as valid
for us today as they were for those who formulated them, the author
maintains. Rosen shows that the history of philosophy -- a story of
conflicting interpretations of human life and the structure of
intelligibility -- is a story that comes to life only when it is
rethought in terms of the philosophical problems of our own
personal and historical situation.
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