Subjectivity, Realism, and Postmodernism - The Recovery of the World in Recent Philosophy

Zusammenfassung This unusually accessible account of recent Anglo-American philosophy focuses on how that philosophy has challenged deeply held notions of subjectivity! mind! and language. The author then explores such topics as mental content! moral realism! realism and antirealism! and the character of subjectivity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'Theological' subjectivity and the Hegelian response; 2. The disenchantment of mind; 3. Davidson and the disenchantment of language; 4. Rorty and antirealism; 5. Realism; 6. Moral realism; 7. Self-relating selves; 8. Postmodernism.

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• Authors: Frank B. Farrell, Frank B. (State University of New York Farrell, Farrell Frank B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.1996
• EAN: 9780521568326
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56832-6
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -