Background
Rosen, Stanley Howard was born on July 29, 1929 in Warren, Ohio, United States. Son of Nathan A. and Celia (Narotsky) Rosen.
(A critique of postmodern thought, reissued in a special 1...)
A critique of postmodern thought, reissued in a special 15th anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert Pippin argues that the work has rightfully achieved the status of a classic, and he seeks to illuminate the underpinnings of postmodernist thought.
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( Hermeneutics as Politics, perhaps the most important cr...)
Hermeneutics as Politics, perhaps the most important critique of post-modern thought ever written, is here reissued in a special fifteenth anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert B. Pippin argues that the book has rightfully achieved the status of a classic. Rosen illuminates the underpinnings of post-modernist thought, providing valuable insight as he pursues two arguments: first, that post-modernism, which regards itself as an attack upon the Enlightenment, is in fact merely a continuation of Enlightenment thought; and second, that the extraordinary contemporary emphasis upon hermeneutics is the latest consequence of the triumph of history over mathematics and science. “Perhaps the most original and philosophically important critical account of hermeneutics—of its philosophical status and historical development—to appear since Gadamer’s Truth and Method.”—Choice “A philosophical polemic of the highest order written in a language of unfailing verve and precision. . . . It will repay manyfold the labour of a slow and considered reading.”—J. M. Coetzee, Upstream
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(The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as ...)
The concept of the ordinary, along with such cognates as everyday life, ordinary language and ordinary experience, has come into special prominence in late-modern philosophy. Thinkers have employed two opposing yet related responses to the notion of the ordinary: scientific and phenomenological approaches on the one hand, and on the other, more informal or even anti-scientific procedures. Philosopher Stanley Rosen here presents a comprehensive study of the main approaches to theoretical mastery of ordinary experience. He evaluates the responses of a wide range of modern and contemporary thinkers and grapples with the peculiar problem of the ordinary - how to define it in its own terms without transforming it into a technical - and so, extraordinary - artefact. Rosen's approach is both historical and philosophical. He offers Montesquieu and Husserl as examples of the scientific approach to ordinary experience; contrasts Kant and Heidegger with Aristotle to illustrate the transcendental approach and its main alternatives; discusses attempts by Wittgenstein and Strauss to return to the pre-theoretical domain; and analyzes the differences among such thinkers as Moore, Austin, Grice and Russell with respect to the analytical response to ordinary language. Rosen concludes with a theoretical exploration of the central problem of how to capture the elusive ordinary intact.
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(Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philoso...)
Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry focuses on the theoretical and practical suppositions of the long-standing conflict between philosophy and poetry. Stanley Rosen--one of the leading Plato scholars of our day--examines philosophical activity, questioning whether technical philosophy is a species of poetry, a political program, an interpretation of human existence according to the ideas of 19th and 20th-century thinkers, or a contemplation of beings and Being.
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(A philosopher enters into a debate with Heidegger in this...)
A philosopher enters into a debate with Heidegger in this text, in order to provide a justification of metaphysics. Stanley Rosen presents an interpretation of metaphysics that opposes the traditional doctrines attacked by Heidegger and by contemporary philosophers influenced by Heidegger.
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"This is a brilliant book and an important contribution to Hegelian studies in English. It attempts to provide a comprehensive summary of the Hegelian system as a whole that is technically accurate and faithful to Hegel’s intention.... A brilliant explication of the character of Hegelian logic . . . required reading for all Hegel scholars." – Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Stanley Rosen’s book . . . is scholarly, sympathetic and critical, indeed the final chapter is an incisive critique of Hegel’s central epistemological position." – Times Higher Education Supplement "Rosen critically evaluates the Hegelian system with reference to The Science of Logic and The Phenomenology of Spirit, and against the background of an analysis of all Hegel’s major works. With a scholarly precision and a clarity due to order, paraphrase, and recapitulation, the author presents a new comprehensive interpretation of Hegel’s work." – D. A. Haney, Library Journal "Those who have admired both the scrupulous scholarship and passionate seriousness of Rosen’s earlier books will not be disappointed with the present work." – James Ogilvy, International Philosophical Quarterly
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(In this book, Rosen enters into a debate with Heidegger i...)
In this book, Rosen enters into a debate with Heidegger in order to provide a justification for metaphysics. Rosen presents a fresh interpretation of metaphysics that opposes the traditional doctrines attacked by Heidegger, on the one hand, and by contemporary philosophers influenced by Heidegger, on the other. He refutes Heidegger's claim that metaphysics (or what Heidegger calls Platonism) is derived from the Aristotelian science of being as being. He argues indeed that metaphysics is simply the commonsensical reflection on the nature of ordinary experience and on the standards of living a better life. Rosen uses his critique of Heidegger to suggest the next step in philosophy: that technical precision and speculative metaphysics be unified in what he calls a "step downward into the rich air of everyday life."
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( This landmark study is a detailed textual and thematic ...)
This landmark study is a detailed textual and thematic analysis of one of Nietzsche’s most important but least understood works. Stanley Rosen argues that in Zarathustra Nietzsche lays the groundwork for philosophical and political revolution, proposing a change in humanity’s condition that would be achieved by eliminating the decadent existing race and breeding a new race to take its place. Rosen discusses Nietzsche’s systematically duplicitous rhetoric of esoteric messages in Zarathustra, and he places the book in the contexts of Greek, Christian, Enlightenment, and postmodernist thought.
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Rosen, Stanley Howard was born on July 29, 1929 in Warren, Ohio, United States. Son of Nathan A. and Celia (Narotsky) Rosen.
Bachelor, University Chicago, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1955. Postgraduate, American School Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1956.
Doctor honoris causa, New University Lisbon, 1997.
His research and teaching focused on the fundamental questions of philosophy and on the most important figures of its history, from Plato to Heidegger. He was also a student of Alexandre Kojève. He did his postdoctoral work at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and became Evan Pugh Professor of philosophy at Penn State University and then Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.
He has held the Companys Lectureship at the University of Barcelona, the Cardinal Mercier Lectureship at University of Leuven, the Priestley Lectureship at the University of Toronto, and the Gilson Lectureship at the Institut Catholique in Paris.
He served as President of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1991. On the one hand he continuously returned to the roots of the philosophical tradition, in particular to Plato, and, on the other, he thought through modern and postmodern philosophy by confronting their most powerful representatives.
The most notable feature of this engagement was the justice done to the two main strands of contemporary philosophy, the continental and analytic movements, represented by their most influential members, Heidegger and Wittgenstein, as preparation for Rosen"s criticism and positive proposals. One of the central themes of Rosen"s work is the claim that the extraordinary discourses of philosophy have no other basis than the intelligent understanding of the features of ordinary life or human existence.
This theme was given an in-depth treatment in his recent work, The Elusiveness of the Ordinary.
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(Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philoso...)
(Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philoso...)
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( Hermeneutics as Politics, perhaps the most important cr...)
( One of a pair of books selected from Stanley Rosen’s ca...)
( One of a pair of books selected from Stanley Rosen’s ca...)
( This landmark study is a detailed textual and thematic ...)
(A philosopher enters into a debate with Heidegger in this...)
(In this book, Rosen enters into a debate with Heidegger i...)
("This is a brilliant book and an important contribution t...)
("This is a brilliant book and an important contribution t...)
(A critique of postmodern thought, reissued in a special 1...)
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He was a student of Leo Strauss at the University of Chicago, where he defended his dissertation on Spinoza in 1955. Rosen"s first two books, a study of Plato"s Symposium and Nihilism: A Philosophical Essay, represent his abiding concerns. Nihilism: a Philosophical Essay (Yale University Press, 1969).
Member Metaphys. Society Am (president 1990-1991).
Married Francoise Harlepp, September 5, 1955. Children: Nicholas David, Paul Mark, Valerie.