Rationalist Empiricism is a study of the dialectical relation between reason and experience in ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy, engaging as well with political theory, the science of measurement, and experimental photography. Across these fields, it shows that coordinating the discrepant claims of rationalism and empiricism is the key to reconciling the speculative and critical vocations of theory and practice.
Rationalist Empiricism is a study of the dialectical relation between reason and experience in ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy, engaging as well with political theory, the science of measurement, and experimental photography. Across these fields, it shows that coordinating the discrepant claims of rationalism and empiricism is the key to reconciling the speculative and critical vocations of theory and practice.
Nathan Brown is Associate Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, where he directs the Centre for Expanded Poetics.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Philosophical Conjuncture 1 Part I: Rationalist Empiricism 1. Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions 35 2. Althusser's Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism 50 Part II: Speculative Critique 3. Hegel's Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics 73 4. Hegel's Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism 90 Part III: Science, Art, Structure 5. Hegel's Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units 125 6. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier 141 7. Where's Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato's Timaeus 166 Coda: Structure and Form 181 Part IV: Theory and Praxis 8. Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction 185 9. The Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality: From Althusser to Théorie Communiste 204 10. The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx 228 Conclusion: The True, the Good, the Beautiful 249 Acknowledgments 263 Notes 265 Works Cited 291 Index 301
Introduction: The Philosophical Conjuncture 1 Part I: Rationalist Empiricism 1. Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions 35 2. Althusser's Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism 50 Part II: Speculative Critique 3. Hegel's Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics 73 4. Hegel's Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism 90 Part III: Science, Art, Structure 5. Hegel's Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units 125 6. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier 141 7. Where's Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato's Timaeus 166 Coda: Structure and Form 181 Part IV: Theory and Praxis 8. Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction 185 9. The Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality: From Althusser to Théorie Communiste 204 10. The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx 228 Conclusion: The True, the Good, the Beautiful 249 Acknowledgments 263 Notes 265 Works Cited 291 Index 301
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