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Book SynopsisThrough a curated selection of papers written over four decades by one of Australia’s leading philosophers, this collection demonstrates the impact of Continental philosophy on philosophical thought in Australia.
The development of specific philosophical problems, over a period of more than forty years by a philosopher whose first training was ‘pre-continental’, shows that it is possible to achieve interaction between ‘continental’ and ‘pre-continental’ methods in philosophy, even while recognizing their distinctiveness. These essays ‘work towards’ continental philosophy in the ways they pay attention to language, to how we experience things and are experienced by others, and to the structures of language and power that frame what it is possible to say and to hear, to write and to read.
Table of ContentsForeword by Genevieve Lloyd
Introduction: ‘Mapping Philosophy’s Continental Drift’
I Truth in phenomenology : Sartre, Ryle, Heidegger
Chapter 1: ‘Husserl’s Transcendental Subjectivity’ (1980)
Chapter 2: ‘Sartre’s Story of Consciousness’ (2001)
Chapter 3: ‘Being Paul Edwards’ (2007)
Chapter 4: ‘Sartre and Ryle on Imagination’ (2015)
II Truth in difference: feminism, the imaginary: Le Dœuff
Chapter 5: ‘Stories, Pictures and Arguments’ (1986)
Chapter 6: ‘Between genres: how philosophy moves’ (1996)
Chapter 7: ‘Textualist’, ‘Imaginary’ and ‘Operative’ practice (1998)
Chapter 8: ‘Utopias and Dreams’ (2003)
Chapter 9: ‘Flights to Transcendence’ (2020)
III Truth in feeling: motive, society, politics:Arendt
Chapter 10: “Simulacra, Enactment and Feeling (1988)
Chapter 11: ‘Thinking Trauma’ (2008)
Chapter 12: ‘Thinking from Underground’ (2010)
Chapter 13: ‘ Reasons within motivated emotion’ (2017)
IV Truth in text and context : Derrida and Foucault
Chapter 14: ‘Chasing after modernity: some friendly words for the post-modern’(2007)
Chapter 15: ‘Foucault’s Madmen’ (2014)
Chapter 16: ‘Il n’y a pas de hors-texte – once more’ (2014)
