The (Coming) Age of Thresholding
As a philosopher, Stephen Erickson considers himself a messenger of sorts and the message he is delivering is an important and groundbreaking one. He convincingly argues that we are entering into a new historical moment, a period which will only be proper
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Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture VOLUME 6
Series Editor H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and Philosophy Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Associate Editor Kevin William Wildes, S.J., Philosophy Department and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Editorial Board Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University, Durham, N. C. Terry Pinkard, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Mary C. Rawlinson, State University of New York at Stony Brook Stuart F. Spieker, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts Marx W. Wartofsky, Baruch College, City University of New York
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THE (COMING) AGE OF THRESHOLDING by
STEPHEN A. ERICKSON The E. Wilson Lyon Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy Pomona College. Claremont. CA, U.S.A.
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The only critique of a philosophy that is possible and that proves anything, namely, trying to see whether one can live in accordance with it, has never been taught at universities: all that has ever been taught is a critique of words by means of other words. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche, "Schopenhauer as Educator," in Untimely Meditations, trans. R.I. Hollingdale (Cambridge, 1983), p. 187. I
Table of Contents
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Preface
IX
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Retroduction
27
CHAPTER 2
Power, Law, and the Accumulated Present CHAPTER 3
Democracy, Disillusion, and Thresholding
43
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CHAPTER 4
No Longer, Not Yet
103
CHAPTERS Philosophy and Meditation
157
CHAPTER 6
205
The Space of Love and Garbage
CHAPTER 7 Symptoms of the Future: Living in the Threshold
265
Index
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Acknowledgements
Over the period of this book's gestation, I have been able to publish sections of the text in initial article form. I wish to thank the following journals in which earlier versions of my work have appeared: "The Space of Love and Garbage in The Harvard Review ofPhilosophy (Vol. 2, Number 1, Spring 1992, pp. 33-41); "On Writing It" in Man and World (Vol. 27, Winter 1994, pp. 99-115); "No Longer, Not Yet: Reading History Grammatically" in Man and World (Vol. 28, Winter 1995, pp. 83-99); "The European Intellectual, Axiality, and
