A Dark History of Modern Philosophy

by Bernard Freydberg

Book Overview

Delving beneath the principal discourses of philosophy from Descartes through Kant, Bernard Freydberg plumbs the previously concealed dark forces that ignite the inner power of modern thought. He contends that reason itself issues from an implicit and unconscious suppression of the nonrational. Even the modern philosophical concerns of nature and limits are undergirded by a dark side that dwells in them and makes them possible. Freydberg traces...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025302935X
• ISBN13: 9780253029355
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"