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The Death of Philosophy: Reference and Selfreference in Contemporary Thought,Used
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Philosophers debate the death of philosophy as much as they debate the death of God. Kant claimed responsibility for both philosophy's beginning and end, while Heidegger argued it concluded with Nietzsche. In the twentieth century, figures as diverse as John Austin and Richard Rorty have proclaimed philosophy's end, with some even calling for the advent of "postphilosophy." In an effort to make sense of these conflicting positionswhich often say as much about the philosopher as his subjectIsabelle ThomasFogiel undertakes the first systematic treatment of "the end of philosophy," while also recasting the history of western thought itself.ThomasFogiel begins with postphilosophical claims such as scientism, which she reveals to be selfrefuting, for they subsume philosophy into the branches of the natural sciences. She discovers similar issues in Rorty's skepticism and strands of continental thought. Revisiting the work of latenineteenth and earlytwentiethcentury philosophers, when the split between analytical and continental philosophy began, ThomasFogiel finds both traditions followed the same paththe road of referencewhich ultimately led to selfcontradiction. This phenomenon, whether valorized or condemned, has been understood as the death of philosophy. Tracing this pattern from Quine to Rorty, from Heidegger to Levinas and Habermas, ThomasFogiel reveals the selfcontradiction at the core of their claims while also carving an alternative path through selfreference. Trained under the French philosopher Bernard Bourgeois, she remakes philosophy in exciting new ways for the twentyfirst century.
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