The development of modern culture along subjectivist lines has led to an analogue of psychological narcissism—to philosophical narcissism—in the culture. The intrinsic value of human cultural activity has been lost, and the intellectual foundation of the modern world-view has been destroyed.
Cahoone carefully develops the idea of subjectivity and narcissism using psychological theory, the dialectical theory of the Frankfurt school, and historians. The core of his interpretive argument is developed through careful analysis of Descartes and Kant as well as of Husserl and Heidegger. Cahoone maintains a carefully controlled continuity between the analysis of philosophic positions and what they reveal about culture.
In the conclusion, he moves toward a recreation of culture in non-subjectivist naturalism. Insights are drawn from Freud, Fairbairne, Winnicott, Kohut, Sennett, Lasch, Horkheimer, Adorno, Dewey, Cassirer, Kundera, and Buchler.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface: The Dilemma
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Modernity, Philosophy, and Culture
The Modernity Debate
Philosophy as a Cultural Process
Part One
The Dynamics Of Subject And Object
Introduction to Part One
1. Subjectivism and the Transcendental Synthesis
The Pervasiveness of Subjectivism
The Subjectivist-Transcendental Synthesis
2. Forging the New Standpoint: Descartes
The Dichotomy
The Transcendental Bridge
3. Recasting the Synthesis: Kant
The Two Orders of Knowing
Relating the Two Orders
4. Philosophical Narcissism and the Radicalization of Subjectivism
The Fortunes of Subjectivism
The Psycho-Dynamic Concept of Narcissism
Philosophical Narcissism
The Dialectic of Philosophical Narcissism
5. Subjectivism without the Object: Husserl
The Project of Husserl’s Late Work
The Failure of Intersubjectivity in the Cartesian Meditations
The Uninhabited Ego
Husserl and Sartre
The Enigmas of Phenomenology
Conclusion
6. Subjectivism without the Subject: Heidegger
The Project of Being and Time
Dasein and Disclosedness
Levinas and the Emptiness of Dasein
The Collapse of Heidegger’s Concept of World
Conclusion
Part Two
The Theory of Modernity
Introduction to Part Two
7. Enlightenment and Narcissism: Adorno, Horkheimer, and Lasch
The Dialectical Theory
A Flaw in the Theory
8. The Cultural Theory and the Rise of Anti-Culture
Cultural versus Dialectical Perspectives
Cultural Subjectivism and Anti-Culture
Part Three The Cultural Dimension
Introduction to Part Three
9. Anti-Culture and the Alleged Death of Philosophy
The Limits of Subjectivism
Anti-Cultural Philosophy
Post-Modernism
10. The Metaphysics of Culture: A Pluralist-Naturalist View
Integrity and Relation
The Concept of Culture
Culture and Mind: Winnicott, Cassirer, and Dewey
Culture and Nature
Epilogue: Humanism, Democracy, and Culture
Jackboots on the Stairs
Anti-Culture and American Democracy
Not an Epitaph
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
Lawrence E. Cahoone is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.
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