The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment Project (Avebury Series in Philosophy) - Hardcover

Sauer-Thompson, Gary; Smith, Joseph Wayne

 
9781859725801: The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment Project (Avebury Series in Philosophy)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1859725805 ISBN 13: 9781859725801
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1997

Synopsis

This text aims to develop 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 commonsense "realism". The authors affirm the reality of the life-world and the primacy of practice against materialist, physicist 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.

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Synopsis

This text aims to develop 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 commonsense "realism". The authors affirm the reality of the life-world and the primacy of practice against materialist, physicist 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.

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Publisher
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1859725805
ISBN 13 
9781859725801
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
250

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