262 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
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Routledge
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Michael Luntley provides a lively introduction to the debate over postmodernism. Sympathisers of the postmodernist critique of absolute knowledge have jetisoned concepts of reason,t ruth and self; this abandonment has fuelled their opponents' case against postmodernism. This has led them to ignore the very real problems raised by the postmodernists. Luntley offers a clear and careful exposition of... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The cosmic register; Chapter 2 Mind – the final mystery?; Chapter 3 No Archimedean point; Chapter 4 Nothing is certain, nothing is known?; Chapter 5 A web of our own conceit?; Chapter 6 Whose game is it anyway?; Chapter 7 The fragility of knowledge; Chapter 8 Who are we?; Chapter 9 Citizens of the here and now; Chapter 10 The making of our selves;
Biography
Michael Luntley is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Language, Logic and Experience (1988) and The Meaning of Socialism (1989). He also plays the tenor sax.
