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Taylor & Francis Ltd Thought A Philosophical History 2021 Edition by Panayiota Vassilopoulou, Daniel Whistler
Of all the topics in the history of philosophy, the history of different forms of thinking and contemplation is one of the most important, and yet is also relatively overlooked. What is it to think philosophically? How did different forms of thinking-reflection, contemplation, critique and analysis-emerge in different epochs? This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical exploration of the history of contemplation, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers canonical figures including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, as well as debates in less well-known areas such as classical Indian and Islamic thought and the role of speculation in twentieth-century Russian philosophy. Comprising twenty-two chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into five parts: * Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume* The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Goedel* Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger* Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray* The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to BatailleThought: A Philosophical History is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought and contemplation. As such, it is a landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and a valuable resource for those studying the subject in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Patterns of Thinking Panayiota Vassilopoulou and Daniel WhistlerPart 1: Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume1. Thinking Like a Hero Casey Perin2. The Primacy of Practice and the Centrality of Outlook: Reflections on Chinese Ethical Traditions Kwong-loi Shun3. Thinking, Theorising and Theoria Stephen Clark Part 2: The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Goedel4. The Myth of the Mental: an Augustinian critique of Dreyfus and McDowell Catherine Pickstock 5. Romantic Thinking Nicholas Halmi6. Pure and Impure Thinking in Hegel's Encyclopedia Markus Gabriel7. Denkicht-Thicket-Thinking with Walter Benjamin around 1917 Peter Fenves8. Formal-Syntactical Thinking and the Structure of the World Paul M. Livingston Part 3: Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger9. Plotinus: Philosophical Thinking as Self-Creation Panayiota Vassilopoulou10. Thinking's History: Descartes and the Past Tense of Thought Andrea Gadberry11. Polyp-Thinking in the Eighteenth Century Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler 12. The Mythic Imagination as an 'Experiment in Philosophy': Erich Unger's Contribution to the Phenomenology of Thinking Bruce RosenstockPart 4: Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray13. Thinking about the Unthinkable: Hypothesizing the khora in the Timaeus Luc Brisson 14. Thought in Motion: Lucretius' Materialist Practice Thomas Nail15. Thinking Philosophically in the Middle Ages: The Case of the Early Franciscans Lydia Schumacher16. The 'Thought-Work'; Or, The Exuberance of Thinking in Kant and Freud Stella Sandford17. Thinking Otherwise with Irigaray and Maximin Rachel JonesPart 5: The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille18. Thinking without Commitment: Two Models Richard Bett19. Thinking, Acting, and Acting by Thinking: Marx and Althusser Gregor Moder20. 'Thoughts and purposes have come to me in the shadow I should never have learned in the sunshine': The Development of Philosophical Thinking in the Literature of Frances E.W. Harper Catherine Villanueva Gardner21. The Void of Thought and the Ambivalence of History: Chaadaev, Bakunin, Fedorov Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet22. The Destruction of Thought Gil Anidjar.Index