The Self-Conscious, Thinking Subject
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-79559-7 (ISBN)
This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts. Robert Abele points out that this presupposes cognitive conditions that cannot be accounted for by empirical-linguistic analyses of language content or social conditions alone. Judgments rather assume both reason and a unified subject, and this requires recognition of a Kantian-type of transcendental dimension to them. Judgments are related to perception in that both are syntheses, defined as the unity of representations according to a rule/form. Perceptual syntheses are simultaneously pre-linguistic and proto-rational, and the understanding (Kant's Verstand) makes these syntheses conceptually and thus self-consciously explicit. Abele concludes with a transcendental critique of postmodernism and what its deflationary view of ontological categories-such as the unified and reasoning subject-has done to political thinking. He presents an alternative that calls for a return to normativity and a recognition of reason, objectivity, and the universality of principles.
lt;p> Robert Abele is Professor of Philosophy at Diablo Valley College, USA. He is the author of A User's Guide to the USA PATRIOT Act (2005); The Anatomy of a Deception: A Logical and Ethical Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq (2009); and contributed to the Encyclopedia of Global Justice (2012).
1. The Primacy of Judgment.- 2. Judgment.- 3: Synthesis: The Common Form of Judgment and Perception.- 4. Synthesis and the Forms of Judgment in Perception.- 5. The Unity of Cognition in the Synthetic Unity of Apperception.- 6. The Drawbacks of Empirical Metaphoric Reductionism.- 7. The Politics of Negative Ontology: Postmodernism.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XV, 339 p. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 460 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Schlagworte | Cognition • Kant • political theory • Postmodernism • synthesis |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-79559-4 / 3030795594 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-79559-7 / 9783030795597 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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