TY - BOOK
T1 - Michel Meyer's Problematology
T2 - Questioning and Society
AU - Turnbull, Nick
N1 - This is the first book devoted to the philosophy of Michel Meyer, an important contemporary European philosopher. The author argues that Meyer establishes a new trajectory for philosophy, based upon a new foundation for reason and original conception of the question-answer difference. Turnbull puts forward problematology as the basis for an innovative approach to social science, in which the concept of questioning expresses the contingency of contemporary society. Problematology is a unique logic and vocabulary that offers an entirely new philosophical approach to social inquiry. Crucially, it integrates rhetoric into social science through the concept of distance.
PY - 2014/4/13
Y1 - 2014/4/13
N2 - In today’s society, everything is in question. The reflexive questioning of modernity has fundamentally problematized society, including philosophy, which has experienced a crisis of metaphysics. Michel Meyer’s problematology answers this crisis by questioning questioning, unfolding a new way of doing philosophy, with special relevance for the study of society. In this first-ever extended treatment of Meyer’s work, Nick Turnbull examines the main features of problematology, including the principle of questioning and the deduction of an original conception of difference, based on the question-answer relationship. Turnbull shows how these insights apply to the philosophy of the emotions, history, meaning, politics, rhetoric and science. He applies Meyer’s ideas to key questions in the philosophy of social science, showing how problematology offers important insights for understanding contemporary society. The book compares Meyer’s philosophy with the work of well-known thinkers, including Bourdieu, Castoriadis, Collingwood, Derrida, Dewey, Gadamer, Heidegger and Lyotard. Turnbull uses problematology and rhetoric to explain how meaning is constructed through practice in the negotiation of social distance.
AB - In today’s society, everything is in question. The reflexive questioning of modernity has fundamentally problematized society, including philosophy, which has experienced a crisis of metaphysics. Michel Meyer’s problematology answers this crisis by questioning questioning, unfolding a new way of doing philosophy, with special relevance for the study of society. In this first-ever extended treatment of Meyer’s work, Nick Turnbull examines the main features of problematology, including the principle of questioning and the deduction of an original conception of difference, based on the question-answer relationship. Turnbull shows how these insights apply to the philosophy of the emotions, history, meaning, politics, rhetoric and science. He applies Meyer’s ideas to key questions in the philosophy of social science, showing how problematology offers important insights for understanding contemporary society. The book compares Meyer’s philosophy with the work of well-known thinkers, including Bourdieu, Castoriadis, Collingwood, Derrida, Dewey, Gadamer, Heidegger and Lyotard. Turnbull uses problematology and rhetoric to explain how meaning is constructed through practice in the negotiation of social distance.
KW - questioning, Michel Meyer, problematology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, social distance, contingency, social inquiry
M3 - Book
SN - 9781472509888
T3 - Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy
BT - Michel Meyer's Problematology
PB - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
CY - London
ER -