Christopher Lauer Book order

Introduction -- Intimacy and feeling -- Dialectics -- Limitations of dialectics -- Note on terminology -- 1 The Gift -- Initiation -- Appeal and delay -- Absenting -- A measured gift: Lysias's speech -- 2 Touching -- Touching as shared experience -- Proportion -- The myth of the inmost touch -- The wound -- 3 The Heartbeat -- Systole and diastole -- Indifference and longing -- 4 The Between -- God and the space between -- The rupture -- Accessibility -- 5 The Fetish -- The interest -- The fetishized body -- The promise -- 6 Embedding -- The secret -- The third -- The neutralized third: Gossip -- The generalized third: Irony -- Fraudulence -- 7 Conflict -- The dismissal -- The dispute -- Violence -- Withdrawal -- Debate -- 8 The Mêlée -- Consumption, destruction and waste -- Laughter -- Frenzy -- Millenarianism -- 9 The Future -- The test -- The commitment -- Planning -- Identification -- Anticipatory mourning -- 10 Mourning -- Gathering and retraction -- Haunting -- Singularity.

'The Canterbury Tales', compiled in the late fourteenth century, is an incisive portrait, infused with Chaucer's wry wit and vibrant, poetical language. He evokes a spestrum of colourful characters, from the bawdy Wife of Bath to the gallant Knight, the fastidious Prioress and the burly, drunken Miller. As they wend their way from Southwark to Canterbury, tales are told to pass the time, and the stories are as diverse as the narrators, encompassing themes such as adultery, revenge, courtly love, lechery, avarice and penitence. As humorous today as when it was written over six centuries ago, 'The Canterbury Tales' remains one of the most popular and enjoyable of the classic works of literature.

In this rigorous historical analysis, Lauer challenges traditional readings that have reduced two of German idealism's most important thinkers to opposing Hegel the uncompromising systematist blind to the novelty and contingency of human life and Schelling the protean thinker drawn to all manner of pseudoscientific charlatanry. Bringing together recent scholarship that is just beginning to realise Schelling's centrality in the overthrow of metaphysics and Hegel's openness to diversity and innovation, this book shows that both thinkers can be read as contributing to the Kantian project of showing both the utter necessity and the limitations of reason.In readings of texts spanning each thinker's career, Lauer shows that animating much of Hegel and Schellings' most passionate work is their recognition of the need neither for a canonization of reason nor for its overthrow, but for its 'suspension'. Their lifelong willingness to revisit both their definitions of reason and their accounts of its role in philosophy give these discussions a vitality and depth that few in the history of philosophy can match.

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