{"product_id":"philosophy-and-the-return-to-selfknowledge-9780300069990","title":"Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book contends that both Anglo-American analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy have lost their vitality  and it offers an alternative in their place. Donald Phillip Verene advocates a renewal of contemporary philosophy through a return to its origins in Socratic humanism and to the notions of civil wisdom  eloquence  and prudence as guides to human action. Verene critiques reflectionthe dominant form of philosophical thought that developed from Descartes and Lockeand shows that reflection is not only a philosophical doctrine but is also connected to the life-form of technological society. He analyzes the nature of technological society and argues that  based on the expansion of human desire  such a society has eliminated the values embodied in the tradition of human folly as understood by Brant  Erasmus  and others.  Focusing in particular on the traditions of some of the late Greeks and the Romans  Renaissance humanism  and the thought of Giambattista Vico  this books concern is to revive the ancient Delphic injunction  \"Know thyself \" an idea of civil wisdom Verene finds has been missing since Descartes. The author recovers the meaning of the vital relations that poetry  myth  and rhetoric had with philosophy in thinkers like Cicero  Quintilian  Isocrates  Pico  Vives  and Vico. He arrives at a conception of philosophy as a form of memory that requires both rhetoric and poetry to accomplish self-knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648054779957,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300069995","price":66.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/philosophy-and-the-return-to-selfknowledge-9780300069990","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}