The Sociology of Philosophies

Fichte’s self is above all reflexive; there is a self which is “an object for myself,” as well as a “self-in-itself,” which disp ...

tions; not only the world but any metaphysical ultimates whatever are arbi- trary. Even Heidegger had not gone this far, noticin ...

as a crucial metaphysical foil. This stance of anti-theism, even more strongly than atheism, is especially marked in Camus. Rebe ...

In fact, Camus spends most of his discussion not on the question whether an ordinary person should commit suicide, but on the pr ...

pressure for alliance with the most active partisans. Malraux ended up going with de Gaulle; Camus, for all his claims to repres ...

the disputes of two generations back, between the logical positivists and phenomenologists of the 1920s and 1930s. And the long- ...

in part because they entwined with border disputes between orthodox theology and its philosophical hybrids. In France, another v ...

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CHAPTER 15 £ Sequence and Branch in the Social Production of Ideas The long-term tendency of an active intellectual community is ...

abstract senses of li was now critiqued, the several realms explicitly separated and opened for independent investigation. Refle ...

arising in disputes over substantive questions, turns away from answering those questions and into its own arena of dispute, rai ...

ritual. As societies grow larger, more stratified, organizationally and economi- cally differentiated, the spiritual entities of ...

is more history of the network to incorporate. Awareness grows that the indi- vidual positions are constructed as parts of a web ...

easy to mistake residues of old arguments for the central issues that will generate the forward thrust of the attention space. P ...

Once the shock in the external base subsides and the internal rearrangement of factions in the attention space runs its course ( ...

tary to a famous text, one’s own work can be assured of wide circulation. The great works of Chinese philosophy are to a large e ...

expanded the calendrical framework, escalating the eons of cosmic time within which their founders are situated. It is almost a ...

scholars tend to regard the members of the “Old Text school” as progressives, rationalists who punctured the occultist cosmologi ...

Qualities of Wisdom, the eightfold Noble Path, and so on. It is tempting to interpret these rubrics as simply mnemonic devices f ...