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In Reshaping Reason, John McCumber advocates new life for Americanphilosophy. At present, McCumber believes, American philosophy is ready to go in newdirections, but American philosophers remain hopelessly divided between analytic orContinental approaches. There seems to be no middle ground, and the debate betweenthe two traditions has created indifference to the field, both in wider intellectualculture and among philosophers themselves. Here,...

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In this provocative work, the author asks us to understand Hegel's system as a new approach to human linguistic communication. Hegel, he argues, is concerned with building community and mutual comprehension rather than with competing metaphysics or developing historical critique.

In this stunning philosophical accomplishment, McCumber sheds importantnew light on the history of substance metaphysics and Heidegger's challenge tometaphysical thinking.... Well-documented, brilliant, definitely a majorcontribution to philosophy!" -- Choice In this compelling work, John McCumber unfolds a history of Western metaphysics that is also a history of thelegitimation of oppression. That is, until Heidegger. But Heidegger himself di...

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This book begins with an overview of information systems security, offering the basic underpinnings of information security and concluding with an analysis of risk management. Part II describes the McCumber Cube, providing the original paper from 1991 and detailing ways to accurately map information flow in computer and telecom systems. It also explains how to apply the methodology to individual system components and subsystems. Part III serve...

In Time and Philosophy, John McCumber presents a detailed survey of continental thought through a historical account of its key texts. The common theme taken up in each text is how philosophical thought should respond to time.

John McCumber is Distinguished Professor of Germanic Languages at UCLA. His most recent books are Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era (2000) and Reshaping Reason: Toward a New Philosophy (2005).

John McCumber is Distinguished Professor of Germanic Languages at UCLA. His most recent books are Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era (2000) and Reshaping Reason: Toward a New Philosophy (2005).

A significant new interpretation of Hegel's crucial criticisms of Kant.

From the rise of formalist novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber shows in this fascinating account, philosophy, too, was hit hard by the Red Scare. Detailing the immense political pressures that reshaped philosophy departments in midcentury America, he shows just ...

A detailed survey of continental thought through an historical account of its key texts.

In Reshaping Reason, John McCumber breathes new life into Americanphilosophy. Moving past the tired divide between "analytic" and "continental" camps, he proposes new directions to unite a discipline which has become more unfocused andinvisible. McCumber recommends a new set of rational tools to enable philosophersand then puts these tools to work to redefine epistemology, ontology, and ethics.Reshaping Reason explores philosophy's achievement...

In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effect of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950s. That McCarthyite forces damaged philosphy is in itself no scandal, nor is it scandalous that the damage was not clearly perceived for some time after the fact. But the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era might have skewed the development of the discipline was barely addressed in the subsequent half cent...

John McCumber asserts that the true target of philosophical liberation isto break the structures of domination that have been encoded in westerncivilization. Because of the emancipatory nature of their thought, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty challenge domination, but they do not see theirchallenge clearly and it does not rise to the level of conscious critique in theirwritings. Using Nietzsche's writings on "the great liberation" as a ...