Knowledge And Civilization
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2019
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-0-367-31650-1 (ISBN)
Description
Knowledge and Civilization advances detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge and describes a redirection, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ecological philosophy of technology and civilization. Rejecting theories that confine knowledge to language or discourse, Allen situates knowledge in the greater field
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
664 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-31650-1 (9780367316501)
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Person
Barry Allen received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton University in 1986. He has taught at the University of Chicago and Hebrew University, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He is the author of Truth in Philosophy and is an associate editor at the interdisciplinary journal Common Knowledge.
Content
Introduction, PART ONE: KNOWLEDGE, 1 What Was Epistemology?, 2 The Art of Knowledge, PART TWO: SOME PHILOSOPHERS, 3 Dionysian Epistemology: Nietzsche's Idea of Knowledge, 4 Stuck in the Order of Discourse: Foucault's Idea of Knowledge, 5 Turning Back the Linguistic Turn: Rorty's Idea of Knowledge, PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE, EVOLUTION, CIVILIZATION, 6 Evolving Knowledge, 7 Civilizing Knowledge 8 The Ultimate Context