Philosophy's Cool Place - 9780801436000

Philosophy's Cool PlaceAuthor(s): D. Z. Phillips\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801436000, 978-0801436000\nSynopsis\nLudwig Wittgenstein established a \""cool\"" stance for philosophy, contemplating the world without meddling in it. D. Z. Phillips explores this position, focusing on its implications for philosophical authorship and the philosophical investigation of the nature of reality.\n\n Influenced by the views of Wittgenstein and his pupil Rush Rhees, Phillipswho is one of Rhees's own studentsfirst contrasts Wittgenstein's methods with Kierkegaard's religiously oriented dialectic. He describes the difficulty in sustaining a contemplative view of philosophy and discusses efforts to go beyond it in the work of Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Annette Baier, and Martha Nussbaum, who, in different ways, propose to make philosophy a guide to living.\n A provocative and challenging work, Philosophy's .