Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller and the Crises of Modernity

by Vincent Michael Colapietro and Vincent Colapietro

Book Overview

John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought, developments often associated with thinkers like Heidegger, Benjamin, Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty. In this study, Vincent Colapietro situates Miller's powerful but neglected corpus not only in reference to Continental European philosophy but also to paradigmatic figures in American culture like Lincoln, Emerson,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082651409X
• ISBN13: 9780826514097
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"