| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 294 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface: Reasons to read Hemsterhuis -- Part one: Preliminaries. Philosophy and poetry -- Rupture -- Part two: Untimely demands. Chapter one: Socrates and Newton. 'Born Greek' -- Geometrical method -- A system of times -- Chapter two: Analysis and poetry. 'Poet-philosophers' and 'humble' analysts -- Sentimental certainty -- The platonic sublime -- The myth of Prometheus -- Part three: A history of organs. Chapter three: Organs, instruments and insects. Insectification -- The plasticity of philosophy -- Perfectability -- The analogy to morality -- Organology and style -- Chapter four: Writing after materialism. Diderot reads Hemsterhuis -- Hemsterhuis reads Diderot -- Palingenesis and the subversion of materialism -- Post-Bonnetian style -- Part four: Time-images. Chapter five: The past and the present. The optimum -- Epistolary style -- Genealogy -- Irony and anachronism -- Chapter six: The archaic and the prophetic. Dreams and shadows -- In the style of hope -- Conclusion: Four characters in search of a philosophy |
| Summary |
Resets the scholarship on the philosophical practice and style of François Hemsterhuis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 01, 2022) |
| Subject |
Hemsterhuis, François, 1721-1790.
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| SUBJECT |
Hemsterhuis, François, 1721-1790 fast |
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Philosophy, Dutch -- 18th century
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PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
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Philosophy, Dutch
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History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.
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Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology.
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Social & political philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781399509848 |
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1399509845 |
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9781399509855 |
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1399509853 |
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