Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Volume One: The Dream is Over (Phenomenology & Deconstruction (Paperback)) - Softcover

Cumming, Robert Denoon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226123677 ISBN 13: 9780226123677

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1992

Synopsis

"Philosophy as . . . a rigorous science . . . the dream is over," Edward Husserl once declared. Heidegger (Husserl's successor), Derrida, and Rorty have propounded versions of "the end of philosophy." Cumming argues that what would count as philosophy's coming to an end can only be determined with some attention to disruptions which have previously punctuated the history of philosophy. He arrives at categories for interpreting what is at issue in such disruptions by analyzing Heidegger's and Husserl's break with each other, Heidegger's break with Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty's break with Sartre.

In this analysis Cumming deals with how a philosophy can be vulgarized (as Heidegger's was by Nazism but in Heidegger's own view by Sartre), with problems of periodization, with how the history of philosophy can be disinguished as a philosophical discipline from intellectual history. Cumming also elaborates an analogy between a philosophical method and style.

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From the Back Cover:

In this analysis, Cumming deals with how a philosophy can be vulgarized with problems of periodization, with how the history of philosophy can be distinguished as a philosophical discipline from intellectual history.

From Library Journal:

If we have entered a post-philosophic period, how did we get here and what is the next intellectual step? Using interpretations of Heidegger and Sartre and their relationships to Husserl and phenomenology as his main focus, Cumming explains the various meanings of the "end of philosophy." Questions of philosophic method, political affiliations, and literary styles are also discussed. Cumming is especially good in his close readings of the exact intellectual influence Sartre received from Husserl and Heidegger. A detailed, well-written study, recommended for large philosophy collections.
- Gene Shaw, Lincoln Park P.L., N.J.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0226123677
• ISBN 13: 9780226123677
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263