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• Commended for Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies 2022

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Author:   Nathan Brown
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9780823290000

ISBN 10:   082329000
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   05 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Philosophical Conjuncture | 1 Part I: Rationalist Empiricism 1. Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions | 35 2. Althusser's Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism | 50 Part II: Speculative Critique 3. Hegel's Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics | 73 4. Hegel's Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism | 90 Part III: Science, Art, Structure 5. Hegel's Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units | 125 6. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier | 141 7. Where's Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato's Timaeus | 166 Coda: Structure and Form | 181 Part IV: Theory and Praxis 8. Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction | 185 9. The Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality: From Althusser to Theorie Communiste | 204 10. The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx | 228 Conclusion: The True, the Good, the Beautiful | 249 Acknowledgments | 263 Notes | 265 Works Cited | 291 Index | 301

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Rationalist Empiricism advances a wholly original and utterly convincing philosophical position, brilliantly bringing together studies in visual art, science, politics, and the history of philosophy. This will be one of the most important theoretical works of the past twenty years or more. It represents a renewal of theory in the best possible sense.---Audrey Wasser, author of The Work of Difference Exhibiting extraordinary range and depth, Nathan Brown takes on the most important philosophical issues of our time: the relation between reason and reality, sapience and sentience, the possibility of revolution and the material conditions of freedom. Inviting serious debate on fundamental questions, this book reawakens our sense of the true, the good, and the beautiful.---Martin Hägglund, author of This Life

Exhibiting extraordinary range and depth, Nathan Brown takes on the most important philosophical issues of our time: the relation between reason and reality, sapience and sentience, the possibility of revolution and the material conditions of freedom. Inviting serious debate on fundamental questions, this book reawakens our sense of the true, the good, and the beautiful. --Martin Hagglund, author of This Life Rationalist Empiricism advances a wholly original and utterly convincing philosophical position, brilliantly bringing together studies in visual art, science, politics, and the history of philosophy. This will be one of the most important theoretical works of the last twenty years or more. It represents a renewal of theory in the best possible sense. --Audrey Wasser, author of The Work of Difference

Author Information

Nathan Brown is Associate Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, where he directs the Centre for Expanded Poetics.

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