Phenomenology and Deconstruction, Volume One: The Dream Is Over

by Robert Denoon Cumming

Book Overview

"Philosophy as . . . a rigorous science . . . the dream is over," Edward Husserl once declared. Heidegger (Husserl's successor), Derrida, and Rorty have propounded versions of "the end of philosophy." Cumming argues that what would count as philosophy's coming to an end can only be determined with some attention to disruptions which have previously punctuated the history of philosophy. He arrives at categories for interpreting what is at issue in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226123677
• ISBN13: 9780226123677
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"