Farewell to Matters of Principle: Philosophical StudiesThis book is the latest addition to the Odéon series, a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature, criticism, philosophy, history and politics. An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen, the book offers a series of essays that present a philosophy of human morality critical of philosophical utopianism. Marquard, widely considered the heir of Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, describes his role as "skeptical philosopher" and discusses the 18th-century formation of such themes and disciplines as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, the nature of myth and attempts to account for it, and hermeneutics. |
Contents
1 Farewell to Matters of Principle Another Autobiographical Introduction | 3 |
2 Competence in Compensating for Incompetence? On the Competence and Incompetence of Philosophy | 22 |
3 Indicted and Unburdened Man in EighteenthCentury Philosophy | 38 |
4 The End of Fate? Some Observations on the Inevitability of Things Over Which We Have No Power of Disposition | 64 |
5 In Praise of Polytheism On Monomythical and Polymythical Thinking | 87 |
6 The Question To What Question Is Hermeneutics the Answer? | 111 |
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