Unreasonable Silence of the World - Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment Project

Sommario

Contents: Rag picking within the wasteland’s debris: the unreasonable silence of philosophy; Reason in and out of history; Cruising with pastiche on the dialectical highway; Nietzsche contra scientism; Nihilism and value in a disenchanted modernity; Has philosophy come to an end?; Index.

Info autore

Gary Sauer-Thompson, Joseph Wayne Smith

Riassunto

Published in 1997. This book develops a postmodernist critique of philosophy - although not the postmodernism of literary philosophers such as Derrida. This postmodernism is one of ecological limitationism coupled with a practical common sense ’realism’. The authors affirm the reality of life-world and the primacy of practice against materialists, physicalists and reductionists. They attempt to show that orthodox Anglo-American analytic philosophy is not merely incapable of completing its own quest to supply a regionally justified system of reality, but, more importantly, it fails as well to meet the challenges of the age.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gary Sauer-Thompson, Gary Smith Sauer-Thompson, Sauer-Thompson Gary, Joseph Wayne Smith, Smith Joseph Wayne
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 23.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138367036
• ISBN: 978-1-138-36703-6
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Filosofia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy