Alfred I. Tauber

Freud, the Reluctant Philosopher

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Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant philosopher who failed to recognize his own metaphysical commitments, thereby… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-691-14552-5
EAN: 9780691145525
Produktnummer: 7784246
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 342 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.0 cm 552 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 552

Über den Autor

Alfred I. Tauber is professor of philosophy and the Zoltan Kohn Professor of Medicine at Boston University, where he is also director of the Center for Philosophy and History of Science. His books include Science and the Quest for Meaning, Patient Autonomy and the Ethics of Responsibility, and Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing.