The Unreasonable Silence of the World: Universal Reason and the Wreck of the Enlightenment ProjectThis text aims to develop 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 commonsense realism. The authors affirm the reality of the life-world and the primacy of practice against materialist, physicist 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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Reason in and out of history | 48 |
Cruising with pastiche on the dialectical highway | 85 |
Nietzsche contra scientism | 130 |
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