TY  - BOOK
AU  - Di Cesare,Donatella
AU  - Broder,David
TI  - The political vocation of philosophy
SN  - 9781509539420
AV  - JA71 .D48213 2021
U1  - 320.01 D54 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, Medford, MA
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - "Originally published in Italian as Sulla vocazione politica della filosofia, 2018 Bollati Boringhieri editore, Torino."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1.           The saturated Immanence of the World 2.           Heraclitus, wakefulness and the original communism 3.           The narcosis of light: on the night of capital 4.           The polis: a calling 5.           Wonder – a troubled passion 6.           Between heavens and abysses 7.           Socrates’s atopia 8.           A political death 9.           Plato – when philosophy headed into exile within the city 10.         Migrants of thought 11.         ‘What is philosophy?’ 12.         Radical questions 13.         The out-of-place of metaphysics 14.         Dissent and critique 15.         The twentieth century: breaks and traumas 16.         After Heidegger 17.         Against negotiators and normative philosophers 18.         Ancilla democratiae: a dejected return 19.         The poetry of clarity 20.         Potent prophesies of the leap: Marx and Kierkegaard 21.         The ecstasy of existence 22.         For an exophilia 23.         The philosophy of awakening 24.         Fallen angels and rag-pickers 25.         Anarchist postscript Notes Bibliography Index; CASG; Master of Arts in Philosophy
N2  - "This book seeks to redefine the purpose of philosophy for our times. Faced with the saturated immanence of the world, philosophy is summoned to return to its original vocation and, after a long absence in which it lost its voice, it is called on to reawaken the community and protect the life we share in common"--
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