Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium - Hardcover

Margolis, Joseph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520201132 ISBN 13: 9780520201132

Publisher: University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

Historied Thought, Constructed World offers a fresh vision: one that engages the reigning philosophies of the West, endorses the radical possibilities of historicity and flux, and reconciles the best themes of Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. Margolis sketches a program for the philosophy of the future, addressing topics such as the historical character of thinking, the intelligible world as artifact, the inseparability of theory and practice, and the reliability of a world without assured changeless structures.

Through the use of numbered theorems that construct an interlocking argument, Margolis carefully articulates his distinctive ideas in the context of work by Quine, Davidson, Putnam, Rorty, Derrida, Habermas, and Foucault. The discussion includes all the central topics of the philosophical tradition: from science to morality, from language to world, from persons to objects, from nature to culture, from causality to purpose, from change to history. What emerges is an argument against essentialism, one that champions the historicity of thought and cultural constructionism.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"A major work, provocative, rich in detailed arguments, and striking in the development of its theme of the historicity of thought. A sustained and perspicuous presentation of the ideas of a leading American philosopher."—Marx Wartofsky, editor of Philosophical Forum

About the Author:

Joseph Margolis is Laura Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. Among his many books are The Flux of History and the Flux of Science (California, 1993) and Interpretation Radical But Not Unruly: The New Puzzle of the Arts and History (California, 1994).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0520201132
• ISBN 13: 9780520201132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 382