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Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium

Door Joseph Margolis

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#278059
Titel
Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium
Auteur
Margolis, Joseph
Boektype
Gebonden
Uitgeverij
University Of California Press
Jaar van uitgave
1995
ISBN10
0520201132
ISBN13
9780520201132
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
Historied Thought, Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West, endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux, and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the philosophy of the future, addressing topics such as the historical character of thinking, the intelligible world as artifact, the inseparability of theory and practice, and the reliability of a world without assured changeless structures.

Through the use of numbered theorems that construct an interlocking argument, Margolis carefully articulates his distinctive ideas in the context of work by Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Rorty, Derrida, Habermas, and Foucault. The discussion includes all the centra
... (Lees verder)l topics of the philosophical tradition: from science to morality, from language to world, from persons to objects, from nature to culture, from causality to purpose, from change to history. What emerges is an argument against essentialism, one that champions the historicity of thought and cultural constructionism.
Pagina's
377
Conditie
Goed — Piece of transperent tape on dust jacket.
Prijs
€ 65,00

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