Refiguring Community and Virtue in Classical German Thought (v.1) (Studies in Continental Thought) - Hardcover

Watson, Stephen H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253333288 ISBN 13: 9780253333285

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1997

Synopsis

o ...a truly unique perspective on the analysis of tradition and of the ethical and political in German Idealism.O NJames Risser 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, HeideggerOs relationship to Hobbes, and HegelOs conception of justice are discussed with great scholarly precision and insight.

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Review

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

About the Author

Stephen H. Watson is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Notre Dame. He is author of Extensions: Essays on Interpretation, Rationality, and the Closure of Modernism and Tradition(s): On Community, Remembrance, and Virtue in Classical German Thought (Indiana University Press).

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253333288
• ISBN 13: 9780253333285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344