Freedom and Modernity

This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and masking a logocentric domination. The author shows how this dogma not only assails a false vision of self-determination, but also how it ignores the way in which a critique of rational autonomy can provide no epistemology or ethics, nor any critique of modernity, without embracing the very independence of thought and conduct that it spurns. Freedom and Modernity offers a positive alternative revealing how self-determination is the very substance of legitimacy for both knowledge and conduct.

Info autore

Richard Dien Winfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Stylistics: Rethinking the Artforms After Hegel; Freedom and Modernity; and Reason and Justice, all published by SUNY Press; and Systematic Aesthetics; Law In Civil Society; Overcoming Foundations: Studies In Systematic Philosophy; and The Just Economy.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Richard Dien Winfield
• Editore: SUNY Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.11.1991
• EAN: 9780791408100
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0810-0
• Pagine: 330
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Peso: 537 g
• Serie: Suny Series in Philosophy 20: SUNY series in Philosophy; Suny Series in Philosophy 20: Suny Philosophy
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia