Who Needs a World View? / / Raymond Geuss.
Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time, dispenses with this ambition for intellectual unity. Ranging across the history of art and ideas, Geuss argues for flexibility, doubt,...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Who Needs a World View? -- 2. Games and Proverbs -- 3. Enlightenment, Genealogy, and the Historicality of Concepts -- 4. Life Is a Game -- 5. The Metaphysical Need and the Utopian Impulse -- 6. Creed, Confession, Manifesto -- 7. Ivan Is Unwell -- 8. Metaphysics without Roots -- 9. Context -- Notes -- Index |
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Summary: | Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of the most celebrated thinkers of our time, dispenses with this ambition for intellectual unity. Ranging across the history of art and ideas, Geuss argues for flexibility, doubt, and the accommodation of unresolved complexity. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674247222 9783110737769 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704822 9783110704648 9783110690057 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674247222 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Raymond Geuss. |