Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment Book 9781474417211, 9780748699803
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The New Scientific Mind
The Epistemological Rupture
The Epistemological Obstacle
The Ruses of Prejudice
Naïvety
Science and History
Rationalism
Truth, Dialectics, the Philosophy of No
Mathematics, la phénoménotechnique
Against Substance
Pythagorism (and further thoughts on la phénoménotechnique)
Some Concluding Remarks
Appendix to Chapter 1: ‘Surrationalism’ by Gaston Bachelard
2 The Imaginary
The Turn
The Imagining Faculty
Imagination and Violence
Narcissism
The Body, Hylozoism
A Psychoanalysis of a Philosophical Mind
The Four Elements
The Imaginary and Philosophy
Overcoming Pain, Overcoming Death
Topophilia
Masculine Death, Feminine Death
3 The Poetics of Time
The Instant
Duration
The Void
Rhythm and Vibration
Against Bergson
The Void and Nothingness
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Bachelard and Atomism
Some Opening Remarks on Democritus, Epicurus and Pierre Gassendi
Democritus and Hylozoism
The Atom in Contemporary Thought
The Void
The Four Atomist Systems
Bachelard and Atomism (Epistemology)
Bachelard and Atomism (‘Metaphysics’)
On Philosophical Aspirations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The New Scientific Mind
The Epistemological Rupture
The Epistemological Obstacle
The Ruses of Prejudice
Naïvety
Science and History
Rationalism
Truth, Dialectics, the Philosophy of No
Mathematics, la phénoménotechnique
Against Substance
Pythagorism (and further thoughts on la phénoménotechnique)
Some Concluding Remarks
Appendix to Chapter 1: ‘Surrationalism’ by Gaston Bachelard
2 The Imaginary
The Turn
The Imagining Faculty
Imagination and Violence
Narcissism
The Body, Hylozoism
A Psychoanalysis of a Philosophical Mind
The Four Elements
The Imaginary and Philosophy
Overcoming Pain, Overcoming Death
Topophilia
Masculine Death, Feminine Death
3 The Poetics of Time
The Instant
Duration
The Void
Rhythm and Vibration
Against Bergson
The Void and Nothingness
Concluding Remarks
Appendix: Bachelard and Atomism
Some Opening Remarks on Democritus, Epicurus and Pierre Gassendi
Democritus and Hylozoism
The Atom in Contemporary Thought
The Void
The Four Atomist Systems
Bachelard and Atomism (Epistemology)
Bachelard and Atomism (‘Metaphysics’)
On Philosophical Aspirations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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