[Stanley Cavell Collection] – [Cavell, Stanley] / Oksenberg Rorty, Amélie.

The Many Faces of Philosophy. Reflections from Plato to [Hannah] Arendt.

First Edition. Oxford and others, Oxford University Press, 2003. 25.8cm x 18.5cm. XXIX, (2), 512 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of philosopher Stancley Cavell. Inscribed / Signed by the editor Amélie Oksenberg Rorty to philosopher Stanley Cavell.

This historically based collection of philosophers’ reflections – the letters, journals, prefaces that reveal their hopes and hesitations, their triumphs and struggles, their deepest doubts and convictions – allow us to witness philosophical thought-in-process. It sheds light on the many – and conflicting – aims of philosophy: to express skepticism or overcome it, to support theology or attack it, to develop and ethical system or reduce it to practical politics. Philosophers experimented with distinctive rhetorical strategies, writing dialogues, meditations, treatises, aphorisms.

In her introductory essay, “Witnessing Philosophers”, Amelie Oksenberg Rorty locates philosophers’ reflections in the larger context of the many facets of their other activies an commitments.

The book includes the following essays by well-known philosophers: “Two cities: Two Roads to Knowledge” by Augustine. “My Life” by Al Ghazali. , “Calamities and Credos” by Abelard and Heloise. “Why I Write.. and How I write” by Moses Maimonides. “How to Think Well” , Francis Bacon.″Moving Toward Clarity” by Rene Descartes. “The Limits of Thought” by Blaise Pascal. “Justice I Teach, and Reverence Justice” by Thomas Hobbes. “Wisdom and the Improvement of the Understanding” by Baruch Spinoza. “The Origins of Philosophical Ideas”, John Locke. “God, Mind and Logic” by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. “Philosophy Does Not Need Abstract Ideas” by George Berkeley. “My Life” by David Hume. “Imagination, Language and the Inventions of Philosophy”, Giambattista Vico. “Good Sense and Nonsense” by Voltaire. “Meditations on my Troubled Heart” byJean-Jacques Rousseau. “Clarity Against Dogmatic Superstition” by Denis Diderot. “The Tasks of Philosophy” by Immanuel Kant. Johann Gottfried Herder, “Culture and the Stages of the Imagination”/ Johann Gottfried Fichte, “Idealism and Self-Reflection”/ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “The New Science of Philosophy”/ Arthur Schopenhauer, “Vitality and the Tasks of Life”/ Jeremy Bentham, “Accounting for Rationality”.

Other essays include: John Stuart Mill, “Education and Social Progress”/ Karl Marx, “Philosophy as Political Critique”/ Soren Kierkegaard, “The Many Faces of an Author”/ Friedrich Nietzsche, “Overcoming My Life”/ Charles Sanders Peirce, “Autobiographical Note”/ William James, “Philosophy and Emergent Morality”/ John Dewey, “From Absolutism to Experimentalism”/ George Santayana, “My Host the World”/ Bertrand Russell, “Why I Became a Philosopher”/ Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Logical Arrangements”/ Martin Heidegger, “My Way to Phenomenology”/ Rudolph Carnap, “Autobiography”/ Jean-Paul Sartre, “Self-Portrait at Seventy”/ Simone de Beauvoir, “Writing a Life of Writing”/ Takatura Ando, “A Philosopher in the Midst of War”/ Hans-Georg Gadamer, “Philosophical Apprenticeships”/ Hannah Arendt, “Thinking Through the Good Life”/ Isaiah Berlin, “My Intellectual Path”/ G.E.M. Anscombe, “My Interests in Philosophy”/ Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Many Sources of Philosophic Reflection”.

• Keywords: Catalogue Autumn 2020 · Cavell, Stanley · History of Philosophy · Philosophy Rare · Stanley Cavell Collection
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195134028
• Inventory Number: 40509AB

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