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Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures

By Arun Iyer

Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures Philosophy

Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures

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By systematically uncovering and comprehensively examining the epistemological implications of Heidegger's history of being and Foucault's archaeology of discursive formations, Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures shows how Heidegger and Foucault significantly expand the notions of knowledge and thought. This is done by tracing their path-breaking responses to the question: What is the object of thought? The book shows how for both thinkers thought is not just the act by which the object is represented in an idea, and knowledge not just a state of the mind of the individual subject corresponding to the object. Each thinker, in his own way, argues that thought is a productive event in which the subject and the object gain their respective identity and knowledge is the opening up of a space in which the subject and object can encounter each other and in which true and false statements about an object become possible. They thereby lay the ground for a new conceptual framework for rethinking the very relationship between knowledge and its object.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2015-07-30
Publication Date:
2015-07-30
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1474242006
ISBN13:
9781474242004
Weight:
360 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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