THOUGHT: A PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY

<p>Of all the topics in the history of philosophy, the history of different forms of thinking and contemplation is one of the most important, and yet is also relatively overlooked. What is it to think philosophically? How did different forms of thinking—reflection, contemplation, critique and analysis—emerge in different epochs? </p><p>This collection offers a rich and diverse philosophical exploration of the history of contemplation, from the classical period to the twenty-first century. It covers canonical figures including Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, as well as debates in less well-known areas such as classical Indian and Islamic thought and the role of speculation in twentieth-century Russian philosophy. </p><p>Comprising twenty-two chapters by an international team of contributors, the volume is divided into five parts: </p><p>• Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume<br>• The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel<br>• Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger<br>• Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray<br>• The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille</p><p>Thought: A Philosophical History is the first comprehensive investigation of the history of philosophical thought and contemplation. As such, it is a landmark publication for anyone researching and teaching the history of philosophy, and a valuable resource for those studying the subject in related fields such as literature, religion, sociology and the history of ideas.</p> <p>Introduction: Patterns of Thinking <i>Panayiota Vassilopoulou and Daniel Whistler </i><b>Part 1: Flourishing and Thinking from Homer to Hume </b>1. Thinking Like a Hero <i>Casey Perin </i>2. The Primacy of Practice and the Centrality of Outlook: Reflections on Chinese Ethical Traditions <i>Kwong-loi Shun </i>3. Thinking, Theorising and Theoria <i>Stephen Clark </i><b>Part 2: The Thinking of Thinking from Augustine to Gödel </b>4. The Myth of the Mental: an Augustinian critique of Dreyfus and McDowell <i>Catherine Pickstock </i>5. Romantic Thinking <i>Nicholas Halmi </i>6. Pure and Impure Thinking in Hegel’s Encyclopedia <i>Markus Gabriel </i>7. Denkicht—Thicket-Thinking with Walter Benjamin around 1917 <i>Peter Fenves </i>8. Formal-Syntactical Thinking and the Structure of the World <i>Paul M. Livingston </i><b>Part 3: Images and Thinking from Plotinus to Unger </b>9. Plotinus: Philosophical Thinking as Self-Creation <i>Panayiota Vassilopoulou </i>10. Thinking’s History: Descartes and the Past Tense of Thought <i>Andrea Gadberry </i>11. Polyp-Thinking in the Eighteenth Century <i>Lydia Azadpour and Daniel Whistler</i> 12. The Mythic Imagination as an ‘Experiment in Philosophy’: Erich Unger’s Contribution to the Phenomenology of Thinking <i>Bruce Rosenstock </i><b>Part 4: Bodies of Thought and Habits of Thinking from Plato to Irigaray </b>13. Thinking about the Unthinkable: Hypothesizing the khôra in the Timaeus <i>Luc Brisson</i> 14. Thought in Motion: Lucretius’ Materialist Practice <i>Thomas Nail </i>15. Thinking Philosophically in the Middle Ages: The Case of the Early Franciscans <i>Lydia Schumacher </i>16. The ‘Thought-Work’; Or, The Exuberance of Thinking in Kant and Freud <i>Stella Sandford </i>17. Thinking Otherwise with Irigaray and Maximin <i>Rachel Jones </i><b>Part 5: The Efficacy of Thinking from Sextus to Bataille </b>18. Thinking without Commitment: Two Models <i>Richard Bett </i>19. Thinking, Acting, and Acting by Thinking: Marx and Althusser <i>Gregor Moder </i>20. ‘Thoughts and purposes have come to me in the shadow I should never have learned in the sunshine’: The Development of Philosophical Thinking in the Literature of Frances E.W. Harper <i>Catherine Villanueva Gardner </i>21. The Void of Thought and the Ambivalence of History: Chaadaev, Bakunin, Fedorov <i>Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet </i>22. The Destruction of Thought <i>Gil Anidjar</i>. <i>Index</i></p>