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By Jeffrey A. Bell

Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, philosophers all through historical past have outfitted their theories round the challenge of reconciling a primary contrast, as for instance, Plato's contrast among wisdom (reality) and opinion (appearance), Descarte's mind/body contrast, and Kant's a priori/a posteriori contrast. This 'problem of distinction' is a vintage subject matter in philosophy, and person who has taken in particular interesting turns in fresh many years. Jeffrey A. Bell the following provides a finely developed survey of the modern continental philosophers, concentrating on how they've got handled the matter of difference.

Bell's paintings centres round 3 key figures - Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Deleuze. He additionally considers the positions of such thinkers as Foucault, Derrida, and Rorty, who've referred to as for an finish to the normal reaction to the matter of distinction - an finish to the hunt for any final foundations on which our diverse and diversified reviews of the area should be dependent - and hence, in impression, an finish to conventional philosophy.

In clarifying the connection among phenomenology and poststructuralism, Bell analyses the position of paradox in either traditions, particularly the position it performs in accounting for distinction. not just philosophers, but additionally lecturers and scholars within the zone of comparative literary they are going to make the most of this book.

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