Persuasion, Reflection, Judgment: Ancillae Vitae

By Rodolphe Gasché

As one of the most respected voices of Continental philosophy today, Rodolphe Gasché pulls together Aristotle's conception of rhetoric, Martin Heidegger's debate with theory, and Hannah Arendt's conception of judgment in a single work on the centrality of these themes as fundamental to human flourishing in public and political life. Gasché's readings address the distinctively human space of the public square and the actions that occur there, and his valorization of persuasion, reflection, and judgment reveals new insight into how the philosophical tradition distinguishes thinking from other faculties of the human mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Release date: Apr 3, 2017
• ISBN: 9780253025852

Rodolphe Gasché

Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor & Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His interests concern the history of aesthetics, German Idealism and Romanticism, phenomenological and post-phenomenological thought, hermeneutics, and critical theory. His most recent books include Europe, or The Infinite Task: A Study of a Philosophical Concept (Stanford University Press, 2009); Un Arte Muy Fragile: Sobre la Retorica de Aristoteles, trans. Rogenio Gonzalez (Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Metales Pesados, 2010); The Stelliferous Fold: Toward a Virtual Law of Literature’s Self-Formation (Fordham University Press, 2011); Georges Bataille: Phenomenology and Phantasmatology (Stanford University Press, 2012); Geophilosophy: On Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s “What Is Philosophy?” (Northwestern University Press, 2014); Deconstruction, Its Force Its Violence (SUNY Press, 2016); Persuasion, Reflection, Judgment: Ancillae Vitae (Indiana University Press, 2017); Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust (SUNY Press, 2018); De l’Éclat du Monde: La “valeur” chez Marx et Nancy (Editions Hermann, 2019); Locating Europe: A Figure, A Concept, An Idea? (Indiana University Press, 2020). His latest book-length study, Plato’s Stranger, will be forthcoming from SUNY Press in 2022.