I Am An Impure Thinker Eugen Rosenstockhuessy by Eugen Rosenstock-huessy 9780912148038, 9780912148564, 0912148039, 091214856X instant download after payment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Farewell to Descartes -- 2.) The soul of William James -- 3.) Modern man's disintegration and the Egyptian Ka -- 4.) The four phases of speech -- 5.) The quadrilateral of human logic -- 6.) The twelve tones of the spirit -- 7.) Heraclitus to Parmenides -- 8.) Teaching too late, learning too early -- 9.) When the four Gospels were written -- 10.) Tribalism -- 11.) Polybius; or, The reproduction of government -- 12.) Immigration of the spirit -- 13.) Metanoia: to think anew -- * APPENDIX: A.) Diagrams of the Ka -- B.) Biography of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy -- C.) Bibliography: works of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy . . . . . . . . . . . . Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) was a sociologist and social philosopher who, along with his close friend Franz Rosenzweig, and Ferdinand Ebner and Martin Buber, was a major exponent of speech thinking or dialogicism. The central insight of speech thinking is that speech or language is not merely, or even primarily, a descriptive act, but a responsive and creative act, which is the basis of our social existence. The greater part of Rosenstock-Huessy's work was devoted to demonstrating how speech/language, through its unpredictable fecundity, expands our powers and, through its inescapably historical forming character, also binds them. Born in Berlin, Germany into a non-observant Jewish family, he converted to Christianity in his late teens. He met and married Margrit Hussy in 1914. Rosenstock-Huessy served as an officer in the German army during World War I. He then pursued an academic career in Germany as a specialist in medieval law, which was disrupted by the rise of Nazism. In 1933, after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, he immigrated to the United States where he began a new acade