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Closure: A Story of Everything
Hilary Lawson
ISBN 13: 9780415136501
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Softcover
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Lawson provides a comprehensive look at the history of western thought, the evolution of science and its attempts to provide us with a "theory of everything" and an evaluation of the relativist multiple truths. He discusses why this scientific mind-set no longer works and why relativist truths are no longer sustainable. He then offers a new theory to help us better understand ourselves and our world.
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"CLOSURE is in many ways admirable. Its range of reference is exhilarating, and its clarity and argumentative vigour refreshing; and it works hard to show that its claims about closure apply without paradox to the story of closure itself....Nevertheless, the story it tells is thoroughly unconvincing. The level of abstraction to which Lawson is forced in his treatment of science, politics, art and religion to reveal their underlying unity entrains the usual fate of those metaphysically inclined to see the One in the Many; the specificity of distinct domains is blurred."
Stephen Mulhall, Times Literary Supplement, 03/01/2002
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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 9.213 by 6.142 inches. (432 pages) This item is printed on demand. Please allow up to 10 days extra for printing & delivery. For over 2000 years our cuture has beieved in the possibiity of a singe true account of the word. Now this age is coming to a cose. As a resut there is a deep unease. We are ost both as individuas, and as a cuture. In the new reativistic, post-modern era, we have no history, no right or mora action, and no body of knowedge. In their pace is a pethora of aternative, and sometimes incompatibe theories from 'fuzzy ogic' to 'consiience' proposing a theory of everything. Cosure is a response to this crisis. It is a radicay new story about the nature of ourseves and of the word. Cosure exposes the centra questions of contemporary phiosophy: anguage and meaning, of the individua and identity, of truth and reaity, but it is aso phiosophica in the broader everyday sense that it enabes us to make sense of where and who we are. A centra principe, the process of cosure, is shown to be at the heart of experience and anguage. As a theory of knowedge it has dramatic consequences for our understanding of the sciences, invoving a reinterpretation of what science does and how it is abe to do it. It simiary proposes a profound shift in the roe of art and reigion. But, above a, it reshapes our understanding of ourseves and the organisation of society, our goas and our capacity to achieve them. A superb new account of how order is created out of disorder, Cosure is an exhiarating work of conceptua geography.The Preface The Proogue 1. The Structure of Cosure 2. Language as Cosure 3. The Search for Cosure: Science, Logic and Mathematics 4. The Search for Openness: Art, Reigion and the Unknown 5. The Poitics of Cosure The Epiogue 'Hiary Lawson shows himsef to be a atter-day 'metaphysician' on the grand scae . a quite astonishing achievement.' - Aan Montefiore, University of Oxford (Paperback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415136504 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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