Böcker av Richard Velkley

"I hoped to use these letters to make a book, in which they would retain their character as individual utterances, although they would become parts of a larger whole." So writes Clovis Mendling, professor of history at a Southern university, bequeathing his letters as an unfinished project to a friend shortly before he mysteriously disappears.

Richard Velkley traces the relation of philosophy to culture from Rousseau to Kant and Heidegger. The work shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature and society that Rousseau brought to the fore.