{"product_id":"philosophys-cool-place-european-party-politics-and-peace-enforcement-in-the-balkans-9780801436000","title":"Philosophy's Cool Place: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): D. Z. Phillips\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLudwig 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by the views of Wittgenstein and his pupil Rush Rhees, Phillips--who is one of Rhees's own students--first 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA provocative and challenging work, \u003ci\u003e Philosophy's Cool Place\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the few books that addresses the discipline as an enterprise and explores its relation to moral values, religious belief, and the nature of Reality. By advancing the cause of neutrality, it will stimulate debate and foster discussion of what philosophy is to become in the postmodern era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591312228503,"sku":"9780801436000","price":8945.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780801436000.webp?v=1774972407","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/philosophys-cool-place-european-party-politics-and-peace-enforcement-in-the-balkans-9780801436000","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}