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Written in a manner accessible to nonspecialists, this book
provides an introduction to all areas central to John Dewey's
philosophy: aesthetics, social and political philosophy, education,
the philosophy of religion, and theory of knowledge. Boisvert
situates Dewey as a thinker who could appreciate the advance of
science while remaining an "empirical naturalist" committed to the
revelatory powers of lived experience.
I Eat, Therefore I Think breaks new ground by introducing
philosophy via an activity central to life: eating. Building on the
original meaning of philosophy as love of wisdom, it explains how
the search for wisdom can best succeed by addressing, not just
mind, but the entire human being. Eating, an activity that
integrates physiological, social, religious, cultural, ethical, and
aesthetic dimensions, offers an opportunity to re-think fundamental
questions. The result: surprising and novel ways to approach art,
religion, knowledge, ethics, and even democracy. The book outlines
a new philosophy for our time. As such, it will be of interest to
people curious about the topic of food, to those interested in
learning about philosophy, and to those who seek new ideas as
guides for living meaningful lives in an intelligible world.
I Eat, Therefore I Think breaks new ground by introducing
philosophy via an activity central to life: eating. Building on the
original meaning of philosophy as love of wisdom, it explains how
the search for wisdom can best succeed by addressing not just the
mind, but the entire human being. Eating, an activity that
integrates physiological, social, religious, cultural, ethical, and
aesthetic dimensions, offers an opportunity to re-think fundamental
questions. The result: surprising and novel ways to approach art,
religion, knowledge, ethics, and even democracy. The book outlines
a new philosophy for our time. As such, it will be of interest to
people curious about the topic of food, to those interested in
learning about philosophy, and to those who seek new ideas as
guides for living meaningful lives in an intelligible world.
The standard interpretation keeps repeating that Camus is the
prototypical "absurdist" thinker. Such a reading freezes Camus at
the stage at which he wrote The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus.
By taking seriously how (1) Camus was always searching and (2) the
rest of his corpus, Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Ordinary
corrects the one-sided, and thus faulty, depiction of Camus as
committed to a philosophy of absurdism. His guiding project, which
he explicitly acknowledged, was an attempt to get beyond nihilism,
the general dismissal of value and meaning in ordinary life.
Tracing this project via Camus's works, Albert Camus and the
Philosophy of the Ordinary, offers a new lens for thinking about
the well-known author.
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