Wayne Cristaudo is professor of political science at Charles Darwin University.

Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy is an excellent account of how ideas become tyrannical as the model for the only way of thinking. From the early modern period to the late 1960s, Cristaudo offers a critique of philosophical hubris that is needed among our academics and meritocrats today.

• Chapter 1 Ideas and Names – A Philosophical CrossroadChapter 2 Mechanistic Metaphysics, “Way of Ideas”, and the Understanding’s Rule of the ImaginationChapter 3 Metaphysical Quandaries along the “Way of Ideas”Chapter 4: The Return of the Idea to the Everyday WorldChapter 5 Transcendental, Subjective, and Objective Idealisms: A Matter of AbsolutesChapter 6 Schelling on Thinking and Being: An Absolute to End all AbsolutesChapter 7 Post-Hegelianism – or the Idea in Our Action in 19th Century PhilosophyChapter 8 The Analytic Retreat to Reason and The Relative Splintering of the IdeaChapter 9 Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology and Heidegger’s Being (an Idea in Spite of Itself)Chapter 10 The Chosen Path of the Idea(isms) of the 60s: Anti-domination, Limitless Freedom and the Politics and Ethics of the Impossible

Wayne Cristaudo is professor of political science at Charles Darwin University.

Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy is an excellent account of how ideas become tyrannical as the model for the only way of thinking. From the early modern period to the late 1960s, Cristaudo offers a critique of philosophical hubris that is needed among our academics and meritocrats today.

• Chapter 1 Ideas and Names – A Philosophical CrossroadChapter 2 Mechanistic Metaphysics, “Way of Ideas”, and the Understanding’s Rule of the ImaginationChapter 3 Metaphysical Quandaries along the “Way of Ideas”Chapter 4: The Return of the Idea to the Everyday WorldChapter 5 Transcendental, Subjective, and Objective Idealisms: A Matter of AbsolutesChapter 6 Schelling on Thinking and Being: An Absolute to End all AbsolutesChapter 7 Post-Hegelianism – or the Idea in Our Action in 19th Century PhilosophyChapter 8 The Analytic Retreat to Reason and The Relative Splintering of the IdeaChapter 9 Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology and Heidegger’s Being (an Idea in Spite of Itself)Chapter 10 The Chosen Path of the Idea(isms) of the 60s: Anti-domination, Limitless Freedom and the Politics and Ethics of the Impossible

Wayne Cristaudo is professor of political science at Charles Darwin University.

Idolizing the Idea: A Critical History of Modern Philosophy is an excellent account of how ideas become tyrannical as the model for the only way of thinking. From the early modern period to the late 1960s, Cristaudo offers a critique of philosophical hubris that is needed among our academics and meritocrats today.

• Chapter 1 Ideas and Names – A Philosophical CrossroadChapter 2 Mechanistic Metaphysics, “Way of Ideas”, and the Understanding’s Rule of the ImaginationChapter 3 Metaphysical Quandaries along the “Way of Ideas”Chapter 4: The Return of the Idea to the Everyday WorldChapter 5 Transcendental, Subjective, and Objective Idealisms: A Matter of AbsolutesChapter 6 Schelling on Thinking and Being: An Absolute to End all AbsolutesChapter 7 Post-Hegelianism – or the Idea in Our Action in 19th Century PhilosophyChapter 8 The Analytic Retreat to Reason and The Relative Splintering of the IdeaChapter 9 Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology and Heidegger’s Being (an Idea in Spite of Itself)Chapter 10 The Chosen Path of the Idea(isms) of the 60s: Anti-domination, Limitless Freedom and the Politics and Ethics of the Impossible