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Philosophy After Postmodernism: Civilized Values and the Scope of Knowledge

Philosophy After Postmodernism: Civilized Values and the Scope of Knowledge

Crowther, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0415310369
ISBN13: 9780415310369
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 5 2003
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.52
Language: English

Formulating a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.
To establish these links, Crowther deploys a mode of analytic philosophy influenced by Cassirer. This approach recontextualizes precisely those aspects of postmodernism which appear, superficially, to be fuel for the relativist fire. This method also enables him to illuminate some of the great practical dangers of the postmodern era - most notably the widespread inability or unwillingness to distinguish between signs and reality. Crowther renews analytic philosophy as a searching form of conceptual and cultural critique that pushes beyond the limits of postmodern thought.

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