The Honor of Thinking : Critique, theory, philosophy
The Honor of Thinking investigates the limits of criticism, theory, and philosophy in light of what Martin Heidegger and French post-Heideggerian philosophers have established about the nature and tasks of thinking. In addition to in-depth analyses of Walter Benjamin's conception of critique-and in particular the relation of critique to ethics, as well as alternative models of criticism (such as Heidegger's notion of "Auseinandersetzung," and Derridean deconstruction)-this book contains essays on the notion of theory from the Greeks and the early German Romantics to the contemporary use of this notion in literary studies. The last part of the book investigates the different ways of understanding philosophical thinking that are found in contemporary French thought, examining works of Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Derrida
Print Book, English, 2007
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2007
x, 410 pages ; 23 cm.
9780804754224, 9780804754231, 0804754225, 0804754233
1099930866
Introduction
Part I: Critique. Critique, hypercriticism, deconstruction ; The sober absolute ; Critique, authentic biographism, and ethical judgment ; Toward an ethics of auseinandersetzung ; More than a difference in style
Part II: Theory. Under the heading of theory ; Comparatively theoretical ; Theatrum theoreticum
Part III: Philosophy. Something like an archaeology ; Thinking within thought ; Saving the honor of thinking ; A stupid passion ; Aporetic experience ; Thinking, without wonder