The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment Project (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Sauer-Thompson, Gary; Smith, Joseph Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138367060 ISBN 13: 9781138367067

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Published in 1997. This book develops 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 common sense ’realism’. The authors affirm the reality of life-world and the primacy of practice against materialists, physicalists 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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Gary Sauer-Thompson, Joseph Wayne Smith

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138367060
• ISBN 13: 9781138367067
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256