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Article Dans Une Revue (Compte-Rendu De Lecture) Année : 2006

Review of Anat Matar's "Modernism and the Language of Philosophy"

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Modernism, in the book under review, is characterized as the belief that "there can be no philosophical language; that the kind of truth sub specie aeterni that was sought by philosophers is either meaningless or more appropriately expressed by the arts -- especially by literature and poetry" (p. xiii). The author wishes to show that this thesis rests upon unquestioned dogmas, presuppositions or presumptions "regarding the distinction between representation and presentation," which should be rejected (p. 9). She proposes to criticize the distinction, along with the other unwarranted distinctions thereby embedded in the central tenet of modernism, and to overcome the "modernist overcoming of metaphysics" by drawing on the works of Jacques Derrida and Michael Dummett.

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Fabrice Pataut. Review of Anat Matar's "Modernism and the Language of Philosophy". 2006, pp.En ligne. ⟨halshs-00791179⟩
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