The Sea as Mirror: Essayings in and Against Philosophy as History

ISBN-13: 9783035803686 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 272 str.

Wu Yi

Recenzje

This is an astonishingly brilliant first book by one of the world's best new philosophical talents. Prepare to enter an entire world of watery pleasures by a mind that has the fluidity, tidal mobility and dread abysses of the oceans."

Simon Critchley

Spis treści

11 - 29 Meta-hodos: A Note on Method (Wu Yi)31 - 53 Chapter 1: Plato's 'Odyssey': Philosophy as Memory Theatre (Wu Yi)55 - 83 Chapter 2: Helen (Wu Yi)85 - 107 Chapter 3: Times New Roman: Augustan Strategies of Re-territorialization and Re-founding (Wu Yi)109 - 130 Chapter 4: Homeward Double Bound: Tragicomic Mimesis in Plautus' 'Amphitryo' (Wu Yi)131 - 154 Chapter 5: The Maritime Modernity of 'Hamlet' (Wu Yi)155 - 174 Chapter 6: Kant on the Voyage of Human Reason (Wu Yi)175 - 200 Chapter 7: Between the Acts (Wu Yi)201 - 219 Chapter 8: Husserl on the Task of Philosophy as Historical Reflection (Wu Yi)221 - 242 Chapter 9: To the Lighthouse: Meditations on a Project (Wu Yi)243 - 252 Concluding Unphilosophic Postscript: Forgetting of Time Un-lost (Wu Yi)253 - 254 Acknowledgments (Wu Yi)255 - 258 A Select Bibliography (Wu Yi)259 - 263 Index (Wu Yi)

O autorze

Wu Yi is a researcher in continental philosophy whose work intersects with world literature and global history. Her research seeks alternative interpretive possibilities to western philosophy understood as a form of historicity. She is currently working on her second book project, The Concept of the Maritime: The Sea as Theory. Yi holds a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research and an M.Phil. from the University of Hong Kong, both in philosophy. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College, where she is also a research associate in the Comparative Literature Program and the Consortium in Race, Migration and Sexuality.