Research Catalog

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Description

1. xii, 150 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. Much effort in recent philosophy has been devoted to attacking the "metaphysics of the subject." Identified largely with French post-structuralist thought, yet stemming primarily from the influential work of the later Heidegger, this attack has taken the form of a sweeping denunciation of the whole tradition of modern philosophy from Descartes through Nietzsche, Husserl, and Existentialism. In this timely study, David Carr contends that this discussion has overlooked and eventually lost sight of the distinction between modern metaphysics and the tradition of transcendental philosophy inaugurated by Kant and continued by Husserl into the twentieth century.
2. Carr maintains that the transcendental tradition, often misinterpreted as a mere alternative version of the metaphysics of the subject, is in fact itself directed against such a metaphysics.

Subject

1. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
2. Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938
3. Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938
4. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804
5. Self (Philosophy)
6. Transcendentalism
7. transcendentalism
8. Zelf
9. Subject (filosofie)
10. Transcendentale filosofie

Contents

1. 4. The Self in the Transcendental Tradition -- Conclusion: The Paradox of Subjectivity.
2. Introduction: Reviving the Question of Subjectivity -- 1. Heidegger on Modern Philosophy and the Transcendental Subject -- 2. Kant: Subjectivity and Apperception -- 3. Husserl: Subjectivity and Intentionality.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-146) and index.