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1 online resource (xx, 318 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The challenge (and stigma) of philosophy -- Distinguishing reasons and causes -- Storms over Königsburg -- The paradox of freedom -- The odd triangle: Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud -- Who is the subject? -- The ethical turn. |
| Summary |
Freud began university intending to study both medicine and philosophy. But he was ambivalent about philosophy, regarding it as metaphysical, too limited to the conscious mind, and ignorant of empirical knowledge. Yet his private correspondence and his writings on culture and history reveal that he never forsook his original philosophical ambitions. Indeed, while Freud remained firmly committed to positivist ideals, his thought was permeated with other aspects of German philosophy. Placed in dialogue with his intellectual contemporaries, Freud appears as a reluctant philosopher who failed to r. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Philosophy.
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939. |
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Philosophy. |
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Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy.
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Psychoanalysis and philosophy. |
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Philosophy. |
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Psychoanalysis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tauber, Alfred I. Freud, the reluctant philosopher. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691145525 (DLC) 2010001612 (OCoLC)502304240 |
| ISBN |
9781400836925 (electronic book) |
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1400836921 (electronic book) |
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9780691145518 |
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0691145512 |
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9780691145525 |
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0691145520 |
| Standard No. |
9786612936531 |
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