Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas - Rilegato

Brandom, Robert B.

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ISBN 10: 067403449X ISBN 13: 9780674034495

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Transcendentalism never came to an end in America. It just went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Robert Brandoms new book. Brandom takes up Kant and Hegel and explores their contemporary significance as if little time had expired since intellectuals gathered around Emerson in Concord to discuss reason and idealism, selves, freedom, and community. Brandoms discussion belongs to a venerable tradition that distinguishes us as rational animals, and philosophy by its concern to understand, articulate, and explain the notion of reason that is thereby cast in that crucial demarcating role.

An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to represent, has been growing in philosophy over the last thirty years, and Robert Brandom has been at the center of this development. Reason in Philosophy is the first book that gives a succinct overview of his understanding of the role of reason as the structure at once of our minds and our meaningswhat constitutes us as free, responsible agents. The job of philosophy is to introduce concepts and develop expressive tools for expanding our self-consciousness as sapients: explicit awareness of our discursive activity of thinking and acting, in the sciences, politics, and the arts. This is a paradigmatic work of contemporary philosophy.

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Animating Ideas

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 067403449X
• ISBN 13: 9780674034495
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 237
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile