Philosophical Historicism and the Betrayal of First Philosophy

Name: Philosophical Historicism and the Betrayal of First Philosophy
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press
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By Carl Page

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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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 256
Release Date:: 1990-12-31
Publication Date:: 1995-04-15
Publisher:: Pennsylvania State University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 027102321X
ISBN13:: 9780271023212
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 421 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 15 cm

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