Tradition(s): Refiguring Community and Virtue in Classical German Thought (Studies in Continental Thought) - Softcover

Watson, Stephen H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253211522 ISBN 13: 9780253211521

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Tradition(s)
Refiguring Community and Virtue in Classical German Thought

Examining the work of Foucault, Kant, Heidegger, Hobbes, and Hegel, Stephen H. Watson tackles the questions: What is the origin of the concept of tradition? How does the notion of tradition affect our understanding of the present and the past? What exactly is tradition?

Studies in Continental Thought―John Sallis, general editor

1998. 336 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
cloth0-253-33328-8$39.95 L / £30.50
paper0-253-21152-2$18.95 s / £14.50

About this title

About the Author

Stephen H. Watson is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Extensions: Essays on Interpretation, Rationality, and the Closure of Modernism and Tradition(s): On Community, Remembrance, and Virtue in Classical German Thought (Indiana University Press).

Review

"... a truly unique perspective on the analysis of tradition and of the ethical and political in German Idealism." James Risser

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253211522
• ISBN 13: 9780253211521
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344