The Unreasonable Silence of the World
Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment Project
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Published on 4. December 1997
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-1-85972-580-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 222 mm
Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85972-580-1 (9781859725801)
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Content
Ragpicking 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?; backing into the future against technocratic discourse.