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The Fullness of Knowing: Modernity and Postmodernity from Defoe to Gadamer

The Fullness of Knowing: Modernity and Postmodernity from Defoe to Gadamer

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1602583315
ISBN13: 9781602583313
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: Jun 16 2010
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Postmodern thinkers have demonstrated the fragmentation of the Enlightenment understanding of the self, society, and nature; for many, however, the postmodern alternatives--the pursuit of individual self-definition, utter skepticism regarding the relation between language and reality, or the embrace of ideological power--are unconvincing. In The Fullness of Knowing, by placing the most promising postmodern insights in dialogue with eighteenth-century critics of the Enlightenment, Daniel Ritchie argues that we can begin to overcome post-Enlightenment fragmentation without abandoning either coherence (as many postmoderns have done) or the valid insights of modern and postmodern thought (as many traditionalists have done).

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