A Philosophy of the Essay

Scepticism, Experience and Style

Erin Plunkett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17048-3 (ISBN)

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Erin Plunkett draws from both analytic and continental sources to argue for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that the essay form is uniquely suited to address the sceptical problem. The authors examined here—Montaigne, Hume, the early German Romantics, Kierkegaard and Stanley Cavell—bring into relief the relationship between scepticism and ordinary life and situate the will to know within a broader frame of meaningful human activity. The formal features of the essay call attention to time, subjectivity, and language as the existential conditions of knowledge.

In contrast to foundationalist approaches, which expect philosophy to reach empirical or rational certainty, Plunkett demonstrates through these writings the philosophical advantages of a fragmentary, non-dogmatic style of writing. A Philosophy of the Essay shows how this medium can help us come to terms with the contingency and uncertainty of life.

Erin Plunkett is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Introduction: Knowing and essaying

Chapter 1. Reciter L’homme in Montaigne’s Essays
Chapter 2. Concepts in Conversation in the Humean Essay
Chapter 3. Infinite Approximation in the German Romantic Fragment
Chapter 4. Possibility in Kierkegaard’s Imaginative Discourses
Chapter 5. Scepticism and Acknowledgement in Cavell’s Essays

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	281 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	1-350-17048-8 / 1350170488
ISBN-13	978-1-350-17048-3 / 9781350170483
Zustand	Neuware