他者と共に哲学する Doing Philosophy with Others : Conversations, Reminiscences, and Reflections

Schrag, Calvin O.

Purdue University Press（2010/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 99 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781557535535
• DDC分類 190

基本説明

Portrays philosophy as a communicative endevour energized by dialogical transactions in which the involved parties strive for an understanding of the meaning of their corporate existence.

Full Description

This book portrays philosophy as a communicative endeavour energised by dialogical transactions in which the involved parties strive for an understanding of the meaning of their corporate existence. As suggested by the book's title, conversation, reminiscence, and reflection are entwined activities and processes. Reminiscence and reflection are understood as parts of dialogic encounters that stimulate the embodied conversational economy. Concrete illustrations of these encounters are provided in the conversations of the author with leading philosophers of the twentieth century. These varied conversations, some going back over fifty years, take the form of interviews, joint presentations, epistolary transactions, and casual exchanges of ideas. The postscript addresses issues pertaining to the role of narrative in everyday engagements, the struggle for multicultural understanding, the challenges of conversing across the disciplines in the present-day university, communication as constitutive of knowledge and self-identity, and the requirement for a transvaluation of the political.