John Mccumber
Biographic Data
| ID | 256381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mccumber |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccumber |
| SIGNATURE | MCCUMBER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On Philosophy
This book re-examines important figures from the entire history of philosophy to show how and why philosophy must renew itself as a critical practice dedicated to dialogue with women, people of color, LGBTs, and others who seek liberation from age-old oppressions.
Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant
Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "naturalistic" style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant. The controversy has hardly died away: it virtually haunts contemporary philosophy from epistemology to ethical theory. Yet if this…
Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant
Working from Hegel's mature texts (after 1807) and reading them in light of an overall interpretation of Hegel's project as a linguistic, 'definitional' system, this book offers major reinterpretations of Hegel's views: The Kantian thing-in-itself is not denied but relocated as a temporal aspect of our experience. Hegel's linguistic idealism is understood in terms of his realistic view of sensation. Instead of claiming that Kant's categorical imp…
Time and Philosophy
Since Kant, the past two centuries of continental philosophy have produced an extraordinary range of ways of thinking about the world and the self. But this diversity of thought has worked to obscure a sense of common interests, of a coherent history. Time and Philosophy presents a detailed survey of continental thought through a historical account of its key texts. The common theme taken up in each text is how philosophical thought should respon…
Time and Philosophy
Hegel and History
To Be is to Be an Anecdote
To Be is to Be an Anecdote: Hegel and the Therapeutic Absolute John McCumber (bio) Anecdote: The narrative of a detached incident, or of a single event, told as being in itself striking or interesting. — OED Anecdotes, it would seem, are of small importance to philosophy. Philosophy is a set of arguments. Philosophical arguments reach universal conclusions, and so cannot make use of particular premises. According to the above definition, which is…
Dialogue as Resistance to Western Metaphysics
Behind all its cultural, political and ethnic variety, I argue, the ‘West’ is founded on a single account of Being, according to which any being is composed of ‘form’ and ‘matter’, with matter dominating form. The West is thus founded on a writing of domination into the nature of being itself. One way to combat that is through various kinds of dialogue that are orientated, not merely to truth, but to freedom. I sketch out the basic forms of such …
Reshaping Reason
At present, John McCumber believes, American philosophy is riding in new directions, but its aims are unfocused and invisible. This book shows philosophy's achievements and failures in cold light and proposes how the field might become more meaningful and relevant to society at large."--Jacket
Just in time
Pierre Kerszberg, Critique and Totality
Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era
Research Article| October 01 1995 Dialectical Identity in a “Post-Critical” Era: A Hegelian Reading John McCumber John McCumber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (4): 1145–1160. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-4-1145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John McCumber; Dialectical Identity in a “Post-Critical” Era: A Hegelia…
Poetic Interaction
Poetic Interaction presents an original approach to the history of philosophy in order to elaborate a fresh theory that accounts for the place freedom in the Western philosophical tradition. In his thorough analysis of the aesthetic theories of Hegel, Heidegger, and Kant, John McCumber shows that the interactionist perspective recently put forth by Jurgen Habermas was in fact already present in some form in the German Enlightenment and in Heidegg…
The Tain of the Mirror
The Ubiquity of the Finite
What are the assumptions and tasks hidden in contemporary calls to overcome the metaphysical tradition? Reflecting upon the internal contradictions of the notions of and Dennis J. Schmidt offers novel insights into how philosophy must relate to its traditions if it is to retain a vital sense of the plurality of that constitute its finiteness. He does this through a close examination of issues found in the work of Hegel and Heidegger, two philosop…
Reconnecting Rorty
Work and Weltanschauung
Back from Syracuse
Aristotelian Catharsis and the Purgation of Woman
Aristotelian Catharsis and the Purgation of Woman
Work and Weltanschauung
Back from Syracuse
Reconnecting Rorty
The Tain of the Mirror
The Ubiquity of the Finite
What are the assumptions and tasks hidden in contemporary calls to overcome the metaphysical tradition? Reflecting upon the internal contradictions of the notions of and Dennis J. Schmidt offers novel insights into how philosophy must relate to its traditions if it is to retain a vital sense of the plurality of that constitute its finiteness. He does this through a close examination of issues found in the work of Hegel and Heidegger, two philosop…
Poetic Interaction
Poetic Interaction presents an original approach to the history of philosophy in order to elaborate a fresh theory that accounts for the place freedom in the Western philosophical tradition. In his thorough analysis of the aesthetic theories of Hegel, Heidegger, and Kant, John McCumber shows that the interactionist perspective recently put forth by Jurgen Habermas was in fact already present in some form in the German Enlightenment and in Heidegg…
Dialectical Identity in a "Post-Critical" Era
Research Article| October 01 1995 Dialectical Identity in a “Post-Critical” Era: A Hegelian Reading John McCumber John McCumber Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1995) 94 (4): 1145–1160. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-94-4-1145 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John McCumber; Dialectical Identity in a “Post-Critical” Era: A Hegelia…
Pierre Kerszberg, Critique and Totality
Just in time
Reshaping Reason
At present, John McCumber believes, American philosophy is riding in new directions, but its aims are unfocused and invisible. This book shows philosophy's achievements and failures in cold light and proposes how the field might become more meaningful and relevant to society at large."--Jacket
Dialogue as Resistance to Western Metaphysics
Behind all its cultural, political and ethnic variety, I argue, the ‘West’ is founded on a single account of Being, according to which any being is composed of ‘form’ and ‘matter’, with matter dominating form. The West is thus founded on a writing of domination into the nature of being itself. One way to combat that is through various kinds of dialogue that are orientated, not merely to truth, but to freedom. I sketch out the basic forms of such …
Hegel and History
To Be is to Be an Anecdote
To Be is to Be an Anecdote: Hegel and the Therapeutic Absolute John McCumber (bio) Anecdote: The narrative of a detached incident, or of a single event, told as being in itself striking or interesting. — OED Anecdotes, it would seem, are of small importance to philosophy. Philosophy is a set of arguments. Philosophical arguments reach universal conclusions, and so cannot make use of particular premises. According to the above definition, which is…
Time and Philosophy
Since Kant, the past two centuries of continental philosophy have produced an extraordinary range of ways of thinking about the world and the self. But this diversity of thought has worked to obscure a sense of common interests, of a coherent history. Time and Philosophy presents a detailed survey of continental thought through a historical account of its key texts. The common theme taken up in each text is how philosophical thought should respon…
Time and Philosophy
Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant
Hegel's critique of Kant was a turning point in the history of philosophy: for the first time, the concrete, situated, and in certain senses "naturalistic" style pioneered by Hegel confronted the thin, universalistic, and argumentatively purified style of philosophy that had found its most rigorous expression in Kant. The controversy has hardly died away: it virtually haunts contemporary philosophy from epistemology to ethical theory. Yet if this…
Understanding Hegel's Mature Critique of Kant
Working from Hegel's mature texts (after 1807) and reading them in light of an overall interpretation of Hegel's project as a linguistic, 'definitional' system, this book offers major reinterpretations of Hegel's views: The Kantian thing-in-itself is not denied but relocated as a temporal aspect of our experience. Hegel's linguistic idealism is understood in terms of his realistic view of sensation. Instead of claiming that Kant's categorical imp…
On Philosophy
This book re-examines important figures from the entire history of philosophy to show how and why philosophy must renew itself as a critical practice dedicated to dialogue with women, people of color, LGBTs, and others who seek liberation from age-old oppressions.
Philosophy (17 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Art (7 works) · Hegelianism (7 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (7 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works)