{"product_id":"rationalist-empiricism-a-theory-of-speculative-critique-hardback-9780823290000","title":"Rationalist Empiricism; A Theory of Speculative Critique (Hardback) 9780823290000","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRationalist Empiricism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Theory of Speculative Critique\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNathan Brown (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823290000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages, 29 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.636 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies, Modern Language Association\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Twenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant's transcendental philosophy attempted to displace the opposing priorities of those orientations, any speculative critique of Kant will have to re-open and consider anew the conflict and complementarity of reason and experience. \u003ci\u003eRationalist Empiricism\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the capacity of reason and experience to extend and yet delimit each other has always been at the core of philosophy and science. Coordinating their discrepant powers, Brown argues, is what enables speculation to move forward in concert with critique.\u003cbr\u003e Sweeping across ancient, modern, and contemporary philosophy, as well as political theory, science, and art, Brown engages with such major thinkers as Plato, Descartes, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Heidegger, Bachelard, Althusser, Badiou, and Meillassoux. He also shows how the concepts he develops illuminate recent projects in the science of measurement and experimental digital photography. With conceptual originality and argumentative precision, \u003ci\u003eRationalist Empiricism\u003c\/i\u003e reconfigures the history and the future of philosophy, politics, and aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: The Philosophical Conjuncture   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Rationalist Empiricism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1.\u003c\/b\u003e Absent Blue Wax: On the Mingling of Methodological Exceptions   35\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Althusser's Dream: The Materialist Dialectic of Rationalist Empiricism   50\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: Speculative Critique\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3.\u003c\/b\u003e Hegel's Cogito: On the Genetic Epistemology of Critical Metaphysics   73\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. \u003c\/b\u003eHegel's Apprentice: From Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism   90\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart III: Science, Art, Structure\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Hegel's Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units   125\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6.\u003c\/b\u003e The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier   141\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7.\u003c\/b\u003e Where's Number Four? The Place of Structure in Plato's Timaeus   166\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda\u003c\/b\u003e: Structure and Form   181\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Theory and Praxis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8.\u003c\/b\u003e Badiou after Meillassoux: The Politics of the Problem of Induction   185\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Criterion of Immanence and the Transformation of Structural Causality:\u003cbr\u003e From Althusser to Théorie Communiste   204\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10. \u003c\/b\u003eThe Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx   228\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: The True, the Good, the Beautiful   249\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   263\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   265\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/i\u003e   291\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   301\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580426678552,"sku":"9780823290000","price":88.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rationalist-empiricism-a-theory-of-speculative-critique-hardback-9780823290000","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}