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Philosophical Historicism and the Betrayal of First Philosophy / Carl Page.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271075525
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 101 20
LOC classification:
  • B61 .P34 1995
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. HISTORICISM: THE NEW COMMONT'LACE -- 1. FROM THE LOGIC OF HISTORY TO THE HISTORICITY OF REASON -- 2. REASON'S INEVITABLE PAROCHIALITY -- 3. DIALECTICAL DIFFICULTIES: NIHILISM AND SELF-REFUTATION -- 4. HEIDEGGER: THE METAPHYSICS OF FINITE HISTORICITY -- 5. HEGEL: HISTORY'S RATIONAL ACTUALITY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: The recent emergence, among philosophers, of the view that the activity of human reason in all its possible modes must also be historicized, including the activity of philosophizing itself, may be found in writers as diverse as Hans-Georg Gadamer, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and Alasdair MacIntyre. This contemporary view of human reason contrasts with the traditional commitments of ";First Philosophy,"; Aristotle's name for the knowledge of things through their ultimate causes and principles. This book challenges the prevailing historicist orthodoxies about the nature of reason and philosophy and offers the first comprehensive analysis and critique of historicism in its current philosophical form. Can philosophical historicism reasonably justify the interpretation of human reason on which its own objections to First Philosophy are based? While Carl Page ultimately concludes that it cannot, he also seeks to rehabilitate historicism's motivating insights by showing how they derive from questions Hegel and Heidegger raised about reason's relation to history.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. HISTORICISM: THE NEW COMMONT'LACE -- 1. FROM THE LOGIC OF HISTORY TO THE HISTORICITY OF REASON -- 2. REASON'S INEVITABLE PAROCHIALITY -- 3. DIALECTICAL DIFFICULTIES: NIHILISM AND SELF-REFUTATION -- 4. HEIDEGGER: THE METAPHYSICS OF FINITE HISTORICITY -- 5. HEGEL: HISTORY'S RATIONAL ACTUALITY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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The recent emergence, among philosophers, of the view that the activity of human reason in all its possible modes must also be historicized, including the activity of philosophizing itself, may be found in writers as diverse as Hans-Georg Gadamer, Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and Alasdair MacIntyre. This contemporary view of human reason contrasts with the traditional commitments of ";First Philosophy,"; Aristotle's name for the knowledge of things through their ultimate causes and principles. This book challenges the prevailing historicist orthodoxies about the nature of reason and philosophy and offers the first comprehensive analysis and critique of historicism in its current philosophical form. Can philosophical historicism reasonably justify the interpretation of human reason on which its own objections to First Philosophy are based? While Carl Page ultimately concludes that it cannot, he also seeks to rehabilitate historicism's motivating insights by showing how they derive from questions Hegel and Heidegger raised about reason's relation to history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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