Existential Epistemology: A Heideggerian Critique of the Cartesian Approach - Hardcover

Richardson, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198249063 ISBN 13: 9780198249061

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1986

Synopsis

A lucid introduction to the "existential phenomenology" of Martin Heidegger, particularly as developed in his major work, Being and Time, this work focuses on how Heidegger's ideas bear on the central problem in epistemology--that of how we can have objective knowledge. The author constructs fresh arguments clarifying Heidegger's contribution to the theory of knowledge, and shows why Heidegger deemed misguided the search for knowledge of the way things are in themselves.

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Review:

'a model of how to transmit the ideas of a difficult author from one tradition to another: attentive to the needs of the reader yet refusing to over-simplify the complexities of an elusive text.' Times Literary Supplement

Synopsis:

This study introduces the `existential phenomenology' of Martin Heidegger, and shows how Heidegger's ideas bear on the central problem of epistemology, that of how we can have objective knowledge.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0198249063
• ISBN 13: 9780198249061
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220