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David Wood (born 1946, Oxford) is a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University. Wood has taught philosophy in Europe and the United States for over thirty years and has published 16 books.

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

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

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

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

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

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

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

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

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

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

To understand how indirect communication is possible we must grasp what it is about ordinary communication that is being changed.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

We are passengers, comprehended and displaced by metaphor.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

Philosophy in its very act is a process of translation!

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

To recognize a difficulty is not to solve it.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

Nietzsche would say my friends lacked ears.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

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.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

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.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

Philosophy is said to have taken the 'linguistic turn' in this century. One hundred years ago, a philosopher would think in terms of mind, spirit, experience, consciousness; now the by-word is language.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

What I would like to show is that there is a vital dimension of their writing, which I call performative reflexivity, which if ignored or misunderstood will impede an adequate response to it.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

Philosophy is an everlasting fire, sometimes damped down by setting itself limits, then flaring into new life as it consumes them. Every field of inquiry is limited, but philosophy has an essential relation to the question of limits, to its own limits.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

Like literature, philosophy is not distinguished from other subjects by a specific approach to a subject-matter independent of it. Chemistry deals with chemicals, biology with life and astronomy with very large, very distant objects. Philosophy can boast no such definite subject-matter.

Philosophy At The Limit (1990)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Wood (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.