David Wood Quotes

David Wood is Centennial Professor of Philosophy, and Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished University Professor, at Vanderbilt University.

Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years, and is the author of 16 books. In addition to teaching at Vanderbilt University, he also co-directs a research programme in ecology and spirituality for the Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture. Wikipedia  

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Famous David Wood Quotes

“After Hegel, philosophy confronts the possibility of its own death, and in some sense has to do so if it is to remain the most fundamental kind of thinking.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 4, Philosophy As Writing: The Case Of Hegel, p. 88

“The point is that philosophy is seen to have come full circle, and to have exhausted itself.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 5, Nietzsche's Styles, p. 95

“To say that all philosophy is writing is, minimally, to say that it is never the transparent expression of thought.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 3, Deconstruction and Criticism, p. 46

“The educated man is the man who does not live in immediate intuition, but in his recollection so that little is new to him any longer.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 4, Philosophy As Writing: The Case Of Hegel, p. 74

David Wood Quotes

“Dialogue never ends not for lack of time or opportunity but for essential reasons.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 7, Vigilance and Interruption, p. 121

“Philosophy in its very act is a process of translation!”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 4, Philosophy As Writing: The Case Of Hegel, p. 81

“To recognize a difficulty is not to solve it.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 1, The Faces of Silence, p. 9

“Nietzsche's problem is how to be a philosopher once he has grasped the finitude of philosophy.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 5, Nietzsche's Styles, p. 96

“Nietzsche would say my friends lacked ears.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 8, Performative Reflexivity, p. 133

“We are passengers, comprehended and displaced by metaphor.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 8, Performative Reflexivity, p. 137

“Language steps in where the angels of experience fear to tread.”

Source: Philosophy At The Limit (1990), Chapter 1, The Faces of Silence, p. 5

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