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Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavour? Applying the tools of intellectual history, Martin Jay examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term "reason” over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason.

About the author

Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include The Dialectical Imagination, Marxism and Totality, and The Virtues of Mendacity.

Summary

Tackles a question as old as Plato and still pressing today: what is reason, and what roles does and should it have in human endeavour? Applying the tools of intellectual history, Martin Jay examines the overlapping, but not fully compatible, meanings that have accrued to the term “reason” over two millennia, homing in on moments of crisis, critique, and defense of reason.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Jay
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780299306540
• ISBN: 978-0-299-30654-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Series: George L. Mosse Series in Mode; The George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History; George L. Mosse Series in Mode; George L. Mosse Series In Modern European Cultural and Intellectual History; George L. Mosse Modern Europea; George L. Mosse the History of
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History