The modern intellectual tradition : from Descartes to Derrida : transcript book /
Lawrence E. Cahoone.
- Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2010.
- 2 v. ; 19 cm.
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Course no. 4790
[v.1] Lectures 1-18 : Philosophy and the Modern Age -- Scholasticism and the Scientific Revolution -- The rationalism and dualism of Descartes -- Locke's empiricism, Berkeley's idealism -- Neo-Aristotelians: Spinoza and Leibniz -- The Enlightenment and Rousseau -- The radical skepticism of Hume -- Kant's Copernican revolution -- Kant and the religion of reason -- The French Revolution and German idealism -- Hegel, the last great system -- Hegel and the English century -- The economic revolution and its critic, Marx -- Kierkegaard's Critique of reason -- Nietzsche's Critique of morality and truth -- Freud, Weber, and the mind of modernity -- Rise of 20th century philosophy, pragmatism, analysis -- [v.2] Lectures 19-36: Rise of 20th century philosophy, phenomenology -- Physics, positivism and early Wittgenstein -- Emergence and Whitehead -- Dewey's American naturalism -- Heidegger's Being and time -- Existentialism and the Frankfurt School -- Heidegger's turn against humanism -- Culture, hermeneutics, and structuralism -- Wittgenstein's turn to ordinary language -- Quine and the end of positivism -- New philosophies of science -- Derrida's deconstruction of philosophy -- The challenge of postmodernism -- Rorty and the end of philosophy -- Rediscovering the premodern -- Pragmatic realism, reforming the modern -- The reemergence of emergence -- Philosophy's death greatly exaggerated.