Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno

363 Pages·2017·2.65 MB·English

by  Raymond Geuss

CHANGING THE SUBJECT

CHANGING THE SUBJECT
Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno
RAYMOND GEUSS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
LONDON, ENGLAND | 2017
Copyright © 2017 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of Ameri ca
First Printing
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Geuss, Raymond, author.
Title: Changing the subject : philosophy from Socrates to Adorno / Raymond Geuss.
Description: Cambridge, Mass a chu setts : Harvard University Press, 2017. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017010499 | ISBN 9780674545724 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Reasoning. | Questioning. | Philosophy—H istory.
Classification: LCC BC177 .G48 2017 | DDC 100—d c23
LC rec ord available at https://l ccn . loc . gov / 2017010499
Jacket design: Graciela Galup
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hilaritatis causa

Endlich!
Die Freiheit!
Die Harpunen fliegen.
Der Regenbogen lagert in den Straßen
Nur noch vom fernen Summen der Riesenbienen unterhöhlt.
Alle verlieren alles, das sie, ach wie oft,
vergeblich überflogen hatte. . . .
At last!
Freedom!
The harpoons fly.
The rainbow is stockpiled
In the streets
Only hollowed out from below
By the distant humming of huge bees
Anything that had ever flown,
oh how often, in vain, over anyone:
every one loses all of that.
— meret oppenheim, Husch, husch, der schönste Vokal entleert sich (1933)