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100	1		_aAgamben, Giorgio _eauthor. _9810991
245	1	0	_aFirst philosophy last philosophy : _bwestern knowledge between metaphysics and science
264		1	_aMedford : _bPolity Press, _c2024.
300			_aviii,132p.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aWhat is at stake in that form of inquiry which the Western philosophical tradition has called first philosophy or metaphysics? Is this an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest - namely, the unity of Western knowledge? In fact, metaphysics is 'first' only in relation to the other two sciences that Aristotle called theoretical: physics and mathematics. It is the strategic sense of this 'primacy' that needs to be examined because what is at issue here is nothing less than the relationship of domination or subservience, conflict or harmony, between philosophy and science. The hypothesis of this book is that philosophy's attempt to use metaphysics as a way of securing its primacy among the sciences has resulted instead in its subservience: philosophy, once handmaiden to theology (ancilla theologiae), has now become more or less consciously handmaiden to the sciences (ancilla scientiarum). So it is all the more urgent to explore the nature and limits of this primacy and subservience, as this book does through an archaeological investigation of metaphysics. This important re-reading of the Western philosophical tradition by a leading thinker will be of interest to students and scholars in philosophy, critical theory and the humanities more generally, and to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and European thought.""-- _cProvided by publisher.
700	1		_aHanafi, Zakiya _etranslator. _9810992
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