Wreckage of Philosophy

Carlo Michelstaedter and the Limits of Bourgeois Thought

AvMimmo Cangiano

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Engelska, 2018

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The work of Carlo Michelstaedter (1887–1910) was the first to analyze modernist philosophy in strict connection with social changes in mass society. Revealing how Michelstaedter was able to unveil the relations between pivotal early-modernist philosophies and social restructurings, The Wreckage of Philosophy examines the ongoing processes of "specialization," "rationalization," and "atomization." It points out how Michelstaedter connected the main theoretical expressions of modernism with the decisive social transformations of the early twentieth century, taking into consideration the key players of modernist philosophy, such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Ernst Mach, and William James.

By following Michelstaedter’s analysis and strategies, The Wreckage of Philosophy focuses on several intertwined issues: the distinct philosophical positions within the modernist area; the connections between philosophy and modernist literature; the relations between intellectual positions and social upheavals; and the early-twentieth-century links among traditional philosophy, critique of language, and epistemology of technique.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-21
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781487530624
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
Serie:Toronto Italian Studies

Utforska kategorier

Historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Filosofi inom Filosofi och religion
Populärfilosofi inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Mimmo Cangiano is an assistant professor in the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Crisis of TruthI. Michelstaedter and the Two Sides of Modernist ThoughtII. The Social Overcoming of the Aesthetic PerspectiveIII. The Social Overcoming of Ethical Life and Tragic Thought2 The Individual Will/Need and the Social Second NatureI. The Light of Will and the "Direct Mode," or Michelstaedter’s Version of SpecializationII. The Vortex of Correlativity, or Michelstaedter’s Version of RelativismIII. The Organization (Abstraction) of RelativityIV. The "Connective Mode"3 Rhetoric’s PathsI. Rhetoric in Language: Michelstaedter’s Sprachkritik and Giuseppe PrezzoliniII. The Abstractions of the Social Machine and the Master–Slave DialecticIII. The Wreckage of Greek Philosophy and the Road to Persuasion4 The Persuasion–Rhetoric Dialectic: History and Social BeingI. Science, Technology, and the Historical Character of the Second NatureII. Ethics, Practice, and DialecticsIII. Rhetoric’s PeakConclusion: The Limits of Bourgeois Thought: Persuasion and Rhetoric and History and Class ConsciousnessNotesBibliographyIndex