Farewell to Matters of Principle: Philosophical Studies

By Odo Marquard

This book is the latest addition to the Od on series, a multidisciplinary series devoted to original works and translations by European writers in the areas of literature, criticism, philosophy, history and politics.
An English translation of the German best-seller Abschied vom Prinzipiellen, the book offers a series of essays that present a philosophy of human morality critical of philosophical utopianism. Marquard, widely considered the heir of Gadamer, Habermas, and Blumenberg, describes his role as "skeptical philosopher" and discusses the 18th-century formation of such themes and disciplines as aesthetics, philosophical anthropology, philosophy of history, the nature of myth and attempts to account for it, and hermeneutics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051149
• ISBN13: 9780195051148
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"