352 Pages
by
Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
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Routledge
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Knowledge and Civilization advances detailed criticism of philosophy's usual approach to knowledge and describes a redirection, away from textbook problems of epistemology, toward an ecological philosophy of technology and civilization. Rejecting theories that confine knowledge to language or discourse, Allen situates knowledge in the greater field of artifacts, technical performance, and human... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- Knowledge -- What Was Epistemology? -- The Art of Knowledge -- Some Philosophers -- Dionysian Epistemology: Nietzsche’s Idea of Knowledge -- Stuck in the Order of Discourse: Foucault’s Idea of Knowledge -- Turning Back the Linguistic Turn: Rorty’s Idea of Knowledge -- Knowledge, Evolution, Civilization -- Evolving Knowledge -- Civilizing Knowledge -- The Ultimate Context
Biography
Barry Allen
