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
cloth 0-253-33328-8 $39.95 L / £30.50
paper 0-253-21152-2 $18.95 s / £14.50

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

Synopsis

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? Stephen H. Watson provides a fine-grained account of tradition that draws on Gadamer, who conceives tradition in terms of continuity, and Foucault, who engages in critique through the presentation of difference. "Tradition(s)" accomplishes this through a series of original readings of Kant and post-Kantian German philosophy, in which topics such as Kant on friendship, nature in post-Kantian thought, Heidegger's relationship to Hobbes, and Hegel's conception of justice are discussed with great scholarly precision and insight.

Edition details

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