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Who Needs a World View? / Raymond Geuss.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674245938
  • 9780674247222
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674247222

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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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