Name: First Philosophy Last Philosophy: Western Knowledge Between Metaphysics and the Sciences (en Inglés)
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Author: Agamben Giorgio,Hanafi Zakiya
ISBN: 9781509560523

portada First Philosophy Last Philosophy: Western Knowledge Between Metaphysics and the Sciences (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Polity

Autor

Agamben Giorgio,Hanafi Zakiya

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

160

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781509560523

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First Philosophy Last Philosophy: Western Knowledge Between Metaphysics and the Sciences (en Inglés)

Agamben Giorgio,Hanafi Zakiya (Autor) · Polity · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "First Philosophy Last Philosophy: Western Knowledge Between Metaphysics and the Sciences (en Inglés)"

What is at stake in that form of inquiry which the Western philosophical tradition has called first philosophy or metaphysics? Is this an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest - namely, the unity of Western knowledge? In fact, metaphysics is 'first' only in relation to the other two sciences that Aristotle called theoretical: physics and mathematics. It is the strategic sense of this 'primacy' that needs to be examined because what is at issue here is nothing less than the relationship of domination or subservience, conflict or harmony, between philosophy and science. The hypothesis of this book is that philosophy's attempt to use metaphysics as a way of securing its primacy among the sciences has resulted instead in its subservience: philosophy, once handmaiden to theology (ancilla theologiae), has now become more or less consciously handmaiden to the sciences (ancilla scientiarum). So it is all the more urgent to explore the nature and limits of this primacy and subservience, as this book does through an archaeological investigation of metaphysics. This important re-reading of the Western philosophical tradition by a leading thinker will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, critical theory and the humanities more generally, and to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and European thought.