Radical Realism: Self and Laughter in Modern America

by Edward Pols

In this eloquent and original book, Edward Pols challenges the linguistic consensus that has dominated Anglo-American philosophy in this century. Against the consensus assumption that the only reality question is about the relation between language and the real, he argues that philosophy is about the world and not merely about the propositional structures we use to interpret the world. The heart of his "radical realism" is that the relation between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080142710X
• ISBN13: 9780801427107
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.