The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the Philosophies of Current Events (Odéon)

Descombes, Vincent; Schwartz, Stephen Adam

ISBN 10: 0195079906 / ISBN 13: 9780195079906

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1993

The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials. Codice articolo BVV.0195079906.G

Riassunto:

How should philosophy deal with world events? Vincent Descombes examines the ways in which major modern philosophers have developed the barometers that they use to tell us about modern reason and the spirit of the times. He examines the so-called "return to Kant" characteristic of projects like Foucault's "ontology of the present," Habermas's critical theory of history, and Heidegger's "epochal" understanding of metaphysics. These projects fail, he argues, because they try to account for the culture of a period by linking it to a Western metaphysics or modern rationality, when in fact philosophy does not contain the "principle" of a culture; simply put, the relation works the other way around. To this kind of "discourse on modernity" Descombes opposes an anthropology of modernity, derived in part from Wittgenstein's philosophy of rules, which suggests a solution to the quarrel between the modern and the postmodern. For Descombes, a "philosophical discourse of modernity" should be rejected, for the true subject of modernity belongs not to philosophers, but to writers, moralists, and sociologists of individualism.

Product Description: Book by Descombes Vincent

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Titolo: The Barometer of Modern Reason: On the ...
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: good