Background Practices: Essays on the Understanding of Being

by Hubert L. Dreyfus

This volume presents a selection of Hubert Dreyfus's pioneering work in bringing phenomenology and existentialism to bear on the philosophical and scientific study of the mind. Each of the thirteen essays interprets, develops, and extends the insights of his predecessors working in the European philosophical tradition. One of Dreyfus' central contributions to reading the historical canon of philosophy comes from his recognition that great philosophers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198796226
• ISBN13: 9780198796220
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"