A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
In A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Delacampagne reviews the discipline's divergent and dramatic course and shows that its greatest figures, even the most unworldly among them, were deeply affected by events of their time. From Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose famous Tractatus was actually composed in the trenches during World War I, to Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger—one who found himself barred from public life with Hitler's coming to power, the other a member of the Nazi party who later refused to repudiate German war crimes. From Bertrand Russell, whose lifelong pacifism led him to turn from logic and mathematics to social and moral questions, and Jean-Paul Sartre, who made philosophy an occasion for direct and personal political engagement, to Rudolf Carnap, a committed socialist, and Karl Popper, a resolute opponent of Communism. From the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School to the contemporary work of philosophers as variously minded as Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Hilary Putnam. The thinking of these philosophers, and scores of others, cannot be understood without being placed in the context of the times in which they lived.

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A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
In A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Delacampagne reviews the discipline's divergent and dramatic course and shows that its greatest figures, even the most unworldly among them, were deeply affected by events of their time. From Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose famous Tractatus was actually composed in the trenches during World War I, to Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger—one who found himself barred from public life with Hitler's coming to power, the other a member of the Nazi party who later refused to repudiate German war crimes. From Bertrand Russell, whose lifelong pacifism led him to turn from logic and mathematics to social and moral questions, and Jean-Paul Sartre, who made philosophy an occasion for direct and personal political engagement, to Rudolf Carnap, a committed socialist, and Karl Popper, a resolute opponent of Communism. From the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School to the contemporary work of philosophers as variously minded as Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Hilary Putnam. The thinking of these philosophers, and scores of others, cannot be understood without being placed in the context of the times in which they lived.

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A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

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In A History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Christian Delacampagne reviews the discipline's divergent and dramatic course and shows that its greatest figures, even the most unworldly among them, were deeply affected by events of their time. From Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose famous Tractatus was actually composed in the trenches during World War I, to Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger—one who found himself barred from public life with Hitler's coming to power, the other a member of the Nazi party who later refused to repudiate German war crimes. From Bertrand Russell, whose lifelong pacifism led him to turn from logic and mathematics to social and moral questions, and Jean-Paul Sartre, who made philosophy an occasion for direct and personal political engagement, to Rudolf Carnap, a committed socialist, and Karl Popper, a resolute opponent of Communism. From the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School to the contemporary work of philosophers as variously minded as Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, and Hilary Putnam. The thinking of these philosophers, and scores of others, cannot be understood without being placed in the context of the times in which they lived.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801868146
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/05/2001
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Christian Delacampagne is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He has served as director of the French Institutes in Barcelona, Cairo, Madrid, and Tel-Aviv and, more recently, as the cultural and scientific attaché of the French Embassy in Boston. He presently teaches in the Department of French and Italian at Connecticut College, in New London.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English-Language Edition
Preface to the Original Edition
Introduction: The Birth of Modernity
1. The Sure Path of Science
Progress in Logic
From Logic to Phenomenology
From Logic to Politics
Wittgenstein's Dissidence
2. Philosophies of the End
The End of Europe
The End of Oppression
The End of Metaphysics
After the End
3. Conceiving Auschwitz
Paths of Exile
Heidegger's Choice
Preliminary Inquiries
Investigation of the Case
4. In the Cold War
Partisans of Liberalism
Defender of Liberty
In Search of a Third Way
Avatars of Marxism
5. Reason in Question
Structure versus Subject
A History of Truth
From Deconstruction to Neopragmatism
Communication or Investigation?
Epilogue: The Unfinished Cathedral
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

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By attending to the role of philosophers in concrete historical events, Delacampagne entwines the lives and work of philosophers into a dramatic and captivating narrative that is sure to spark considerable discussion.
—John Symons, Emerson College, Boston

John Symons

By attending to the role of philosophers in concrete historical events, Delacampagne entwines the lives and work of philosophers into a dramatic and captivating narrative that is sure to spark considerable discussion.

— John Symons, Emerson College, Boston

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