In this volume, author Steven L. Bindeman presents a survey of the key figures in postmodern antiphilosophy. The author demonstrates how the antiphilosophers are united in questioning the centrality of the great cornerstones of western metaphysics - time, self, universe, and God - because of their insistence that there is no way to reach beyond any of these words to the actual things to which they refer.

Autorentext

Steven L. Bindeman was Professor of Philosophy and Department Chairperson at Strayer University, Arlington campus, until his retirement in December 2010. His teaching experience reflects not only his interest in philosophy and psychology, but also in film and media studies, science fiction, world music, and comparative religion. Bindeman has been elected into Whös Who in American Colleges and Universities. He has published articles on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Levinas, the creative process, and postmodernism, as well as numerous book reviews. His book Heidegger and Wittgenstein: The Poetics of Silence (1981) is currently listed as a recommended text under the listing «Heidegger» in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Zusammenfassung
Presents a survey of the key figures in postmodern antiphilosophy. This book shows how the antiphilosophers turn their focus on the complexity of lived experience in place of the search for certainty, which was in their view what previously had guided the dominating discourse of the modernist philosophical tradition.

Inhalt

Contents: The Four Central Themes of Antiphilosophy Two Responses to Nihilism: Kierkegaard and Nietzsche The Break with Science: Husserl and Freud Silence at the Edge of Language: Wittgenstein and Heidegger Reason Under Siege: Benjamin and Horkheimer/Adorno The Lived Experience: Bachelard and Merleau-Ponty Strategies of Disruption: Levinas and Derrida Exploring the Edge of the Real: Foucault and Deleuze/Guattari Philosophy at the Boundaries of Thought. Badiou and iek Debate Antiphilosophy.