The Philosophy Book

299 See also: Immanuel Kant 164–71 ■ Georg Hegel 178–85 ■ Friedrich Nietzsche 214–21 ■ Ludwig Wittgenstein 246–51 ■ Martin Heide ...

300 FOR THE BLACK MAN, THERE IS ONLY ONE DESTINY AND IT IS WHITE FRANTZ FANON (1925–1961) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Political philosophy ...

301 See also: Aristotle 56–63 ■ Jean-Paul Sartre 268–71 ■ Maurice Merleau-Ponty 274–75 ■ Edward Said 321 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY ...

302 MAN IS AN INVENTION OF RECENT DATE MICHEL FOUCAULT (1926–1984) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Epistemology APPROACH Discursive archaeolog ...

303 The 19th century saw a revolution in anatomy, as shown in this illustration from a medical text book. Foucault believes that ...

304 IF WE CHOOSE, WE CAN LIVE IN A WORLD OF COMFORTING ILLUSION NOAM CHOMSKY (1928–) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Ethics APPROACH Universal ...

305 Uncle Sam, the personification of the United States, is one of countless props used by governments to foster public support. ...

306 SOCIETY IS DEPENDENT UPON A CRITICISM OF ITS OWN TRADITIONS JURGEN HABERMAS (1929– ) IN CONTEXT BRANCH Political philosophy ...

307 See also: Jeremy Bentham 174 ■ Karl Marx 196–203 ■ Theodor Adorno 266–67 ■ Edgar Morin 338 ■ Niklas Luhmann 339 ■ Noam Choms ...

THERE IS NOTHING OUTSIDE OF THE TEXT JACQUES DERRIDA (1930–2004) ...

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310 IN CONTEXT BRANCH Epistemology APPROACH Deconstruction BEFORE 4th century BCE Plato’s Meno explores the idea of “aporia.” Ea ...

311 See also: Plato 50–55 ■ Charles Sanders Peirce 205 ■ Ferdinand de Saussure 223 ■ Emmanuel Levinas 273 ■ Louis Althusser 338 ...

312 JACQUES DERRIDA Derrida’s own thesis that there is nothing outside of the text is open to be analyzed using his own deconstr ...

313 Derrida registered his opposition to the Vietnam War in a lecture given in the US in 1968. His involvement in numerous polit ...

THERE IS NOTHING DEEP DOWN INSIDE US EXCEPT WHAT WE HAVE PUT THERE OURSELVES RICHARD RORTY (1931–2007) ...

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316 T he soul is a curious thing. Even if we cannot say much about our souls or describe what a soul is like, many of us nonethe ...

317 data of how the world is. Second, we assume that once this raw data has been collected, our reason (or some other faculty of ...

318 RICHARD RORTY when we say “I know, in my heart of hearts, that it is wrong”, we are speaking as if there is something out th ...