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A Dark History of Modern Philosophy
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A Dark History of Modern Philosophy Paperback - 2017

by Bernard Freydberg


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Delving beneath the principal discourses of philosophy from Descartes through Kant, Bernard Freydberg plumbs the previously concealed dark forces that ignite the inner power of modern thought. He contends that reason itself issues from an implicit and unconscious suppression of the nonrational. Even the modern philosophical concerns of nature and limits are undergirded by a dark side that dwells in them and makes them possible. Freydberg traces these dark sources to the poetry of Hesiod, the fragments of Heraclitus and Parmenides, and the Platonic dialogues and claims that they rear their heads again in the work of Spinoza, Schelling, and Nietzsche. Freydberg does not set forth a critique of modern philosophy but explores its intrinsic continuity with its ancient roots.

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  • Title A Dark History of Modern Philosophy
  • Author Bernard Freydberg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Pages 154
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date 2017-08-14
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780253029461 / 0253029465
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.37 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 0.94 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Modern - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017006406
  • Dewey Decimal Code 190

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About the author

Bernard Freydberg is Scholar in Residence at Duquesne University. He is author of Imagination in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (IUP, 2005) and Philosophy and Comedy: Aristophanes, Logos, and Eros (IUP, 2008).

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